Word: overburden
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...Francoeur, devout Roman Catholics, are seen intermittently flitting through their woods like shades in Dante's Purgatorio, while Daniel tussles with sexuality, unspecified rage and moral salvation. Should he refuse to register for the draft or sign up as a conscientious objector? The question threatens to overburden a small, finely balanced novel of physical awakening. But the risks pay off in an unexpected dimension. Daniel's brother Albert, a Marine Corps officer, offers advice that goes beyond the usual gung-ho justifications. "Your private longing may be to live," he writes, "but that counts for nothing. You cannot...
...determined not to hurry the process with pumps or other heavy-duty machinery. All in all, the technicians at Three Mile Island are cautiously optimistic. But even after cooldown, their job will not be done. They must still purge the stricken and perhaps permanently wrecked plant of its overburden of frighteningly dangerous radioactivity, a process that could easily go on for months. Then they must figure out a way to dispose of tons of unprecedented high-level nuclear waste left by the nightmare. Even Yankee ingenuity has not come up with a solution to that...
...author's obvious personal intelligence, coupled with that which he bestows on his characters, including the women, counteracts the nose in the air excesses. The theatrical, artistic and literary allusions (not to mention numerous Harvard Law School alumni) that Auchincloss generously strews throughout the novel usually liven, rather than overburden his dialogue...
...Chang's Liang Ch'i-ch'ao and Intellectual Transition in China is an outgrowth of his Ph.D. thesis. Nevertheless, it reads smoothly and does not attempt to overburden the reader with the useless facts or to overawe him with the writer's analytical skills. The author has attempted to show how currents of Western and traditional Chinese thought clashed in Liang's mind. Liang did not merely substitute Western ideas for those already present in the Chinese tradition. Liang would accept a particular Western idea, but he was perfectly willing to discard that idea if he found an element...
Dumped over deep cuts high in the mountains, the "overburden" piles up -until the rains come. Then the mud and boulders roar downhill, snapping big trees like toothpicks and tumbling onto farms, gardens and homes in the hollows below. "I just dread the day," says Alice Slone, principal of a school in Cordia, Ky., "when I'll pick up the phone and find one of the children has been buried in a strip mine slide...