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There is no doubt about the impact of Silent Spring; it is a real shocker. Many unwary readers will be firmly convinced that most of the U.S.-with its animals, plants, soil, water and people-is already laced with poison that will soon start taking a dreadful toll, and that the only hope is to stop using chemical pesticides and let the age-old "balance of nature" take care of obnoxious insects...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Biology: Pesticides: The Price for Progress | 9/28/1962 | See Source »

...possible," says Miss Carson, "to add pesticides to water anywhere without threatening the purity of water everywhere." It takes only a moment of reflection to show that this is nonsense. Again she says: "Each insecticide is used for the simple reason that it is a deadly poison. It therefore poisons all life with which it comes in contact." Any housewife who has sprayed flies with a bug bomb and managed to survive without poisoning should spot at least part of the error in that statement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Biology: Pesticides: The Price for Progress | 9/28/1962 | See Source »

...related chemicals are almost as dangerous, but luckily they break down quickly into harmless substances and so leave no poisonous residue on fruits and vegetables or in the soil. Their disadvantage is that they can poison farm workers who handle them carelessly. Miss Carson describes these very rare accidents and gets shock effect out of them, but they are comparable to accidents caused by careless handling of such violent industrial chemicals as sulfuric acid. The highly toxic phosphates are no menace to the general public, which seldom comes in contact with them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Biology: Pesticides: The Price for Progress | 9/28/1962 | See Source »

Nikita Khrushchev considers the Monroe Doctrine a corpse. Said he in 1960: "Now the remains of this doctrine should best be buried, as every dead body is, so that it does not poison the air by its decay." Some Americans, even including some officials of the U.S. Government, look upon it as, if not quite dead, then at least moribund. It is "out of date," says Eleanor Roosevelt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: The Durable Doctrine | 9/21/1962 | See Source »

...more, Thyrsus and Corydon, dressed leotard-fashion as for a black ballet, begin a play within a play within a play. They build an imaginary wall between themselves. Shortly they have taken it so seriously that it is a real wall of hate and hostility leading Thyrsus to poison Corydon with contaminated water at the same time he strangles her with a supposed necklace of rich jewels. It all happens very fast. In reality it is alla gama. But Thyrsus and Corydon die. And even though it was only a game within a play, their bodies do not move...

Author: By Norris Merchant, | Title: Experimental Theatre | 8/9/1962 | See Source »

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