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Some English 70 veterans doubtless remember Ethan Frome, Edith Wharton's dark and dour New England novel whose poetry lies in the starkness of its prose and of the events that torture its three main characters. The same people might have looked askance at the posters that said Ethan Frome was going up at the Ex. How do you dramatize a book like that? "You do think of it as something to read, not see," allows producer Dorothea Hanson...
Irate Congressmen. Instead, Frome preferred to play it tough and tendentious. He criticized timber companies, highway builders and strip miners. Frequently he used his column to lobby against legislation that might be potentially destructive to the environment. One of his notable victories came in 1970, when he helped defeat a bill which would have given timber cutting priority over recreational and other uses for national forests...
Says Joseph Browder, director of the Environmental Policy Center in Washington: "Frome has raised the consciousness of millions of readers from bag limits and such to the real questions of what's happening to our resources and what can be done to protect them...
...consciousness-raising process, Frome has made enemies in big business, the gun lobby and on Capitol Hill. Many Congressmen were irate about his controversial 1972 "Rate Your Candidate" article. The story evaluated Senators and Congressmen on their attitudes toward conservation and environment issues. Some Congressmen, including Gerald Ford (listed in the "poor" category), complained that the ratings were unfair...
...That Frome refused to do, with the result that he lost his biggest platform. Says Congressman Reuss: "If Field & Stream has no place for Frome, then we have come to a time when the voice of conservation is, quite literally, a voice crying in the wilderness...