Word: itemizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ITEM: The Energy Crisis. As every driver knows, automobiles, not nations, now stand accused of the abuse of power (65% of American workers inefficiently drive to their jobs-most of them sans passengers). Common sense, then, would dictate new attention-and funding-for railroads, buses and subways. Instead, the House of Representatives has just refused to allow new funds for mass transit. Meanwhile, as fuel supplies dwindle, new appliances are creating absurd demands. Among other concerned legislators, Senator Henry Jackson concludes: "We need to ask whether we must despoil the hills in Appalachia to air-condition sealed-glass towers...
...ITEM: Pollution. The use of "improved" chemicals exacts a usurious price. Clothes are more immaculate, but rivers are dirtier. Insecticides help fruit to ripen undisturbed, but as insects die, so do birds and fish and mammals. Preservatives give packaged food a longer shelf life, but they may also cause disease. As the latter-day Poor Richard, Barry Commoner, has observed: "There is no such thing as a free lunch." Nonetheless, that illogical meal remains the most actively sought of all contemporary national goals. (On the other hand, the parvenu naturalists attack the machine as a malignant monster - though, if pollution...
...mounted a show of the year's student work comprising thesis projects in painting, sculpture, photography, and "things we can't even describe," as the poster says. I'm not sure what those undescribables are, but the photography on the main show floor seems to be the most attractive item of the exhibit. John Getsinger has assembled a set of photographs of people in Lowell, along with quotations from the individuals, an explanation of how the photographer came to meet them, and description of their relationships to each other. Maria Schless has produced an excellent series of portraits and sequences...
...larger headlines in the Boston Chronicle of July 25, 1768 read: STRAYED. The copy beneath told of a lost "small red & white spotted cow"; the owner offered a reward of $2. Another item, headlined PROVIDENCE, told of that town's dedication of a "Great Elm Tree" to serve as its symbolic "Tree of Liberty." While digesting these and other colonial bulletins, a visitor to the Smithsonian Institution in Washington can wander backward or forward in American journalism to examine, say, the first regularly published newspaper in America (Boston News-Letter, 1704), or see news photos...
...Justice William Rehnquist, speaking for a five-man majority that chose to hew to a line of earlier decisions. Infiltration of a drug ring and "limited participation in [its] unlawful present practices is a recognized and permissible means of apprehension." And by extension so is the providing of "some item of value," since "an agent will not be taken into the confidence of the illegal entrepreneurs unless he has something of value to offer them." Treading a delicate line, Rehnquist ruled that "it is only when the Government's deception actually implants the criminal design in the mind...