Word: old
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...attempt to convince you that nuclear power was not only dangerous, it was racist, sexist, militaristic, anti-gay and a tool of imperialist capitalistic corporate exploitation as well. Then past tables filled with anti-nuke and alternative energy literature and finally down a dirt path to the beach, were old reliables like Dave Dellinger, former anti-war activist, and George Wald, Emeritus Professor of Biology, would speak and Pete Seeger and others entertain. Just before noon, a sign reading "Plutonium Is Leaking!" was unfurled, but the only visible emission came from the skies, as the rains began; protesters, police...
...SHAD's policy of nonviolent protest, some expressed impatience with the American anti-nuclear movement and waned that future protests might not be so peaceful. Many were new to the movement, joining after the Three Mile Island accident in March, and this was their first protest. They mixed with old vets, who wore buttons proclaiming earlier arrests at Seabrook, N.H., or Rocky Flats, Colorado. About half the protesters went limp to emphasize their non-cooperation...
...else: dread of the future that Hitler is planning across the border in Germany. Durrell is still prone to overripe passages, but some of his audacious effects work memorably. He describes the madam of a French brothel sitting in her establishment, "enthroned in wigged splendour like a very very old ice cream of a deposed empress." At its frequent best, Livia offers a world of cool, dark enchantment...
...salt; the strange, hospitable atmosphere of Titan, a moon of Saturn. Sagan is at his wittiest when he attacks his bêtes noires: the ideas of Catastrophist Immanuel Velikovsky. Scientists usually lapse into tantrums when they discuss Velikovsky's belief in Venus as the cause of Old Testament miracles and plagues. Sagan, in a chapter worth the price of the book, refutes the claim so calmly and effectively that the theory, like an exhausted Sky lab, falls of its own weight...
DIED. Leverett Saltonstall, 86, crusty Massachusetts Republican who as state house speaker (1929-36), Governor (1939-44), and U.S. Senator (1944-67) shaped policies in his increasingly Democratic state for nearly five decades; of a heart attack; in Dover, Mass. Born into a wealthy Brahmin family with 300-year-old roots in Boston and eight Massachusetts Governors among its scions, the long-jawed, rawboned "Salty" had a face so honest and distinctive it was called his best political asset. After serving 13 years in the state legislature, he won glory and the governorship by defeating Boston's scandal-tainted...