Word: felting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...evening last week, technicians at the big nuclear plant in Wiscasset, Me., felt the floor vibrate under their feet. A minor earthquake had struck. It measured only 4.0 on the Richter scale and did no damage to the plant or much of anything else in New England. But the temblor must have caused shudders of delight in Washington. For once the Nuclear Regulatory Commission had guessed right. Maine Yankee was one of five power plants on the East Coast, not known for its seismic risks, that it had ordered temporarily shut down last month ?only two weeks before...
...Allen seems content these days. Or at least as content as he can be. Rather uncharacteristically, he even seems tentatively pleased with his own work. "I wanted to make a film that was more serious than Annie Hall, a serious picture that had laughs in it," he says. "I felt decent about Manhattan at the time I did it; it does go farther than Annie Hall. But 1 think now I could do better. Of course, if my film makes one more person feel miserable, I'll feel I've done my job." He is only half joking...
Allen first began to grapple with these issues on film in Interiors, and he plans to make more serious films in the future. "I have always felt tragedy was the highest form, even as a child, before I could articulate it. There was something about the moodiness, the austerity, the apparent profundity of Elia Kazan's films then that sucked me in. With comedy you can buy yourself out of the problems of life and diffuse them. In tragedy, you must confront them and it is painful, but I'm a real sucker for it." Allen did not have...
Upon arriving here at Harvard we were struck by the vigor and perseverance of the South African Solidarity Committee (SASC). Both of us find the system of apartheid despicable, and we felt respect for students advocating the eradication of such an evil institution. But our perception of SASC's goals have begun to change. We now wonder exactly what the goals of SASC are. Does SASC want to free South Africans from the chains of apartheid, or is there a further goal? It seems that SASC stands not only in support of oppressed South Africans, but also of other African...
Others who crossed the picket lines said they felt intimidated, although protesters did nothing to prevent them physically from getting to class. Others questioned the effectiveness of the boycott in changing Corporation policy, and on that score they appear to have been right...