Word: frozenly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Dartmouth College campus quickens to the approach of the fall term and a few of the weaker maple trees are beginning to turn orange. The occasion is the Fourth International Conference on Computers and-what is this?-the Humanities. Is the conference title a self-contradiction, like "fresh-frozen" or "Young Republican"? The observer, a humanist in a dry season, resolutely programs himself to suppress his real attitude toward computers, which is a feeling of smugness and superiority masking a feeling of inferiority and hysteria. This dates from an episode ten years ago when he was living in Salzburg, Austria...
...Analyzing material from two meteorites found in Antarctica, where they had been frozen in ice for 200,000 years, Ponnamperuma and his colleagues discovered many amino acids, about half of them different from any that are found in living organisms. Two facts convinced him that the acids are, in his words, "extraterrestrial and pre-biotic": 1) Unlike the Murchison meteorite, which had been contaminated by earthly organic matter after it fell, the Antarctic meteorites were pristine, containing only the amino acids they brought to the earth from space...
...what foods the average individual consumes today--data which Congress says "borders on the absurd." Since the EPA study was made in 1965, Congress reports, "We have seen some major shifts in food consumption in the U.S.... Consumption of poultry, chicken, cheese, margarine, shortening and oils, fresh and frozen vegetables and corn syrup and sweeteners has increased." Finally, the EPA supports many of its decisions with data supplied by the chemical industry itself--which obviously has an interest in pooh-poohing the dangers of its products. The EPA's program, Congress concludes, "is abysmal and needs a complete overhaul...
Hugh Gallen, Democratic Governor of New Hampshire, on energy and his state's 1980 primary: "If your pipes are frozen and you have a President on the streets asking for your vote, the voters are going to answer that gentleman...
Made in America seems at first blush an odd title for a novel about the Mafia, but Peter Maas should be forgiven his irony. Sicily's best-known export has, of course, become as American as frozen pizza. As Maas has shown in The Valachi Papers and Serpico, Cosa Nostra reaches far below the imperial realms of The Godfather into virtually every working-class neighborhood where cash is short and the Mob's loan sharks cruise...