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Hawkes remains America's least-read major novelist, in spite of his solid critical standing and the growing accessibility of his prose. With his novel, The Blood Oranges, he began to pare down the dense, complexly allusive style that had saddled him with the reputation of a "writer's writer." The intricate plots of his early work gave way to simple, static situations. The Lime Twig (1961), still Hawkes's best novel, had the suspenseful, carefully interwoven plot of a detective story rendered in turbulent, opaque prose. The turbulence is still there, but plot has all but disappeared from Hawkes...
Feisal must be the world's hardest-working King. Like many executives, he suffers from ulcers, which have forced him to pare his workday from 18 hours to 14 hours. When asked about his health, he sometimes replies: "Still living." He rises at dawn, prays-one of five daily prayer sessions-and rides in the front seat of a Chrysler New Yorker from his unostentatious villa to his small, paneled office in the green-roofed presidential palace in Riyadh. He never uses the sprawling $60 million palace built by the profligate Saud. When an interior decorator had a sumptuous...
...nations carry out their oil cutbacks, the U.S. could wind up 2,000,000 bbl. short of the 17 million bbl. that it consumes each day. Energy experts in government, business and academe have been pumping out suggestions to help consumers conserve fuel. For example, one immediate way to pare energy demand is to continue Daylight Saving Time right through winter, thus chopping by an hour the heavy night-time use of electricity. Some other potential conservation measures...
...like electric toothbrushes and shoeshine kits, one of the fastest ways to conserve energy is to switch to fluorescent lighting, which requires far less power than the ordinary-and highly inefficient-light bulb, but gives off from three to seven times as much illumination. There are many ways to pare energy use, but most of them would have to be enforced by law-or at least a strong national publicity campaign-to make them effective. For example, consumers can use regular refrigerators, which require 40% less power than those that are frost-free, and black-and-white television sets, which...
...Board and the Price Commission will go out of business within 90 days. Enforcement of the program will be taken over by the Cost of Living Council (COLC), which will have to decide which wage and price boosts to ignore, which to try to pare down in negotiation and which simply to order reduced. The COLC will be headed by John T. Dunlop, a tough, politically savvy labor economist and dean of Harvard's faculty of arts and sciences, who is equally respected in the dissimilar worlds of hardhats and mortarboards...