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...buried himself. . .The cave of his skull furs with nonsense. Pan, fade, dissolve. That is how it happens every night...
...fade, so may Fleetwood Mac. For the most part, Tusk continues the tradition of the predictable Fleetwood Mac song--strong, throbbing percussion, acoustic guitar, and lyrics often unintelligable and always accompanied by lots of "oooh-waahs" or "sha-la-las". True, there is some experimentation with different musical styles--"That's Enough for Me" sounds like an Appalachian hoedown with its folk banjo and "Yeah, yeah, y'alls" while "Not That Funny" is somewhat new wave with its synthesizer solos--but nearly all the cuts seem forced to fit into Fleetwood Mac's formulaic style. Tusk is from the same...
...must accept as a fact that accidents can happen. Operations personnel in particular must not have a mind-set that future accidents are impossible. The experience of Three Mile Island has not been sufficient to eradicate that mind-set in all quarters, and the effects of that experience will fade with time. We have no easy answer to suggest, but attitudes must be changed.'' If Three Mile Island was not enough to change them, the Kemeny report ought to further the cause...
...Penn game--a Harvard record 375 total yards--the 1978 record for most total yeards in a season--the 10-1. 0.95 earned run average in the 1978 baseball season--the 6-0 shutout of Cornell to seal the 1978 Eastern League title for the Crimson: these glories fade to irrelevance in professional sports. The halo of his charmed athletic existence at Harvard, he hopes, will soon give way to a new dome covering his head. A big dome. In Houston...
...centennial of Edison's great achievement comes at a time when American innovative genius, so well personified by Edison, has begun to fade. The nation that produced Robert Fulton, Robert Goddard, Edmund Land and many others now has far fewer folk-hero tinkerers. Laments James G. Cook, president of the Thomas Alva Edison Foundation: "Over the past decade, America has been losing its traditional leadership in technological innovation. Our Edison-like spirit of inventiveness seems to be going the way of the gas lamp...