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...facility at Vernon will be operated by the Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corporation, but suffers from limitations inherent in its fission, boiling water reactor (BWR) design and its peculiar location in the Connecticut River Valley near the Vermont Massachusetts border...
...read in part, "I respectfully request that you withdraw my name from the list of nominees. My request is in no way intended to denigrate my colleagues. Furthermore, peculiar as it may seem, I mean no offense to the Academy. I simply do not wish to be involved." It was a polite request. Elsewhere, however, Scott was a little more explicit. "The whole thing is a goddam meat parade," he said. "I don't want any part...
...Miss Jameson has produced what may become a minor classic of feminism. She tracks the single-minded drive essential to a woman who insists on being more than a private person, even though she understands all too well the peculiar costs to herself and to those she loves. The slow flowering of the "necessary egoism" of the born writer gradually enabled Storm Jameson to avoid domesticity, slough off a first useless husband, sporadically put aside a much-loved child in favor of work, and deliberately miscarry another. Egoism mastered diffidence, countered improvidence with "confidence in my strength and cleverness...
...Peculiar Hold on American Youth...
These and other abundant signs of commercial achievement measure, but do not begin to explain, James Taylor's peculiar hold on the ear and imagination of youthful Americans. A good deal of his success is based on the kind of personal magnetism that has been making baritones and matinee idols rich and famous for generations, a particular masculine presence. Lean and hard (6 ft. 3 in., 155 Ibs.), often mustachioed, always with hair breaking at his shoulders, Taylor physically projects a blend of Heathcliffian inner fire with a melancholy sorrows-of-young-Werther look that can strike to the female...