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Sometimes pollution can even help recreation. In flat northeastern Illinois, for instance, the handsomest recreation area will soon be Du Page County's fast-rising 118-ft. hill and 65-acre lake-artfully built on garbage fill. One form of pollution could even enhance-rather than spoil-water sports. Much of the nation's coastline is too cold for swimming; if marine life can be protected, why not use nuclear plant heat to warm the water? Or even create underwater national parks for scuba campers...
...characteristic tone of Updike's prose is elegiac. He is, by his attention to it, paying homage to the world, preserving it, transfiguring it, declaring it all worth saving. One can quote at random from his novel, for every page has gems of observation, rhythmic and charming passages of prose. Only the transcribed stream-of-consciousness of Piet is ever dull or banal...
...persons interviewed, one-third had not yet started the 25-to-40 page paper, which is the only requirement for "Character and Social Structure in America." There are about 420 people in the course...
...automobiles kill 200,000 persons a year). By Freudian analysis, it is the supreme expression of aggression in an increasingly depersonalized society. Under these circumstances, driving a car should be an urgent matter of concern for Christian moralists, contends France's Abbe Hubert Renard, and in a 306-page book entitled The Automobilist and Christian Morality, he attempts to fashion a schema of ethical principles for the Christian driver...
...must have been one of the issues of the Crimson that I missed that announced the sale (or renting) of the front page of the Harvard Crimson to Robert F. Kennedy '48, for the duration of the campaign season. Surely such a transaction would explain the extraordinary bias the Crimson has shown in the past week...