Word: pilgrim
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...virtue he believed essential to life. This sort of intuitive speculation, intimate but never condescending, recalls Johnson's own method in Lives of the Poets. No other biographer of Johnson has meditated so profitably on the qualities that made him "a heroic, intensely honest, and articulate pilgrim in the strange adventure of human life." James Atlas
Each 1000 megawatt reactor (the planned Boston Edison Pilgrim II plant will be 1180 megawatts) produces as much high-level waste as 1000 Hiroshima-sized bombs each and every year. There are over 28 different radioactive substances routinely emitted from these nuclear reactors, all of which are ecologically dangerous and some of which, such as strontium-90 and cesium-131, will be a disposal problem for 600 to 1000 years. The most deadly emission, of course, is plutonium. Its lethality is such that one-millionth of a gram is sufficient to cause lung cancer--and a large reactor annually produces...
Similar intense descriptions of nature stamped Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Dillard's 1975 Pulitzer-prizewinning book...
...fountain that tumbles from a corner of Boston's Siena-like City Hall Plaza, where secretaries and bureaucrats now take their brown-bag lunches. Perhaps, like Robert Frost's pilgrim in Directive ("Back out of all this now too much for us"), the city folk find in their new fountains something of that hidden spring, where they can "drink and be whole again beyond confusion...
...hand-tinted legend has displaced the coruscating verse-a fault, says this terse, canny biography, of the poet himself. According to Alex de Jonge, a Fellow and Tutor of New College, Oxford, Les Fleurs du Mai is "Pilgrim 's Progress in reverse," and so was Baudelaire's life...