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Must I then stop going to the woods, cut off the illusory springs of remaining happiness so as to obtain a more coherent picture of my society? Sitting in a forest there is nothing worth knowing except that life is really great. But that can't possibly be right while the War is going on. It is too selfish a vision. It does not speak about most people's lives...
...police obtain the diary, which condemns its author. Or is the diary a plant? Has the father chosen to look so openly compromised that he must be innocent? The villain's teen-aged son has been receiving surreptitious history lessons from Charles. Has he fanned Oedipal notions in the youth's brain? Is a murderer the man who creates the idea or the instrument by which it is performed? Is Charles both or neither...
...Robertson, the group's lead guitarist, is not only one of the best lyricists in rock, he is far and away the greatest storyteller. In Daniel and the Sacred Harp, he spins an almost biblical allegory about a boy named Daniel who covets a sacred harp, arranges to obtain it by means devious and mysterious, and when it finally comes into his possession, finds that he has "won the harp" but "lost in sin." His fate is proved to him when "he looked to the ground" and "noticed no shadow did he cast." Robbie also turns his hand...
Raising the output of electric power from coal, oil and gas will involve either more pollution or substantially higher costs-and perhaps both. To obtain more natural gas, the Government will probably allow producers a higher rate of return. If the construction of power plants and transmission lines is to be hastened, a multitude of local governments will have to sacrifice some of their authority. Oil in quantity from the rich Alaskan finds will not reach the market for years, even if the Government allows a prompt start on construction of the trans-Alaskan pipeline, which conservationists oppose. Some oilmen...
...years just past. There will be a renewed rush by corporations to finance their expansion by issuing more common stock. In the 1960s, companies were able to get most of their financing through retained profits, bond issues or bank loans, which were fairly cheap and easy to obtain. Executives were reluctant to float stock because it would dilute their earnings per share. "And in those days," says Stein, "earnings per share were a sacrosanct criterion of executive skill...