Word: fossilizing
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...callow youth of today, however, who has never thrilled to a boogie base line or bounced to the irresistible beat, Gordon's musical archaeology is welcome. A living fossil, he single-handedly embodies a way of life and--more important by far--an attitude to living which has all but died out today...
...will be hard, perhaps impossible, for Switzerland to break from its nuclear umbilical cord. Lacking fossil fuels, it relies more per capita on nuclear power for its electrical energy than any other country in the world. Three nuclear plants produce 12% of Switzerland's electricity needs. A fourth plant was supposed to have started up by now, but it has been delayed indefinitely by Harrisburg. Admits Willi Ritschard, Switzerland's energy minister: "We Cannot survive without nuclear energy...
...fossil bones and teeth were not, in fact, the first fragments found in the area. During the 1920s, before Burma broke away from British domination and became an independent country, scientists found similar specimens. The fossils were poorly preserved, but they seemed to represent two slightly differing kinds of primates that were named Pondaungia and Amphipithecus, and their discovery persuaded some anthropologists that the roots of the higher primates lay in Asia. Of the new fragments, all but one have been matched with the original finds...
Musicals date even faster than plays, and if one pilfers the formulas of the past, as the fashioners of Carmelina have, one has to be lucky enough to find a fossil audience to match. Based on the 1968 film Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell, Carmelina tells the tale of Signora Carmelina Campbell, a Southern Italian beauty winningly played by Georgia Brown. During World War II, she made love to three G.I.s and, to one of them, bore a daughter now 17 and ascribed to a dead hero ingeniously named for a soup can. A postwar reunion of the U.S. liberators...
...industry's and government's confidence of old; reappraisal and caution would now be the order of the day. The unthinkable had come perilously close to happening, causing second thoughts about the form of energy that promises to relieve dependence on ever diminishing, ever more expensive fossil fuel supplies...