Word: poundings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...average nuclear reactor produces 400 to 500 pounds of plutonium a year. One pound, distributed evenly through the atmosphere, is enough to give every person on earth lung cancer for so goes the estimate of Dr. Helen Caldicott, author of Nuclear Madness and an anti-nuclear activist). One-millionth of a gram of plutonium constitutes a carcinogen dose. That's just one of the dangers when reactors operate "safely." Since at Three Mile Island, the public has learned that far more dangerous accidents will happen, and the anti-nuclear movement has been swelling...
...Africanism: Africa and the Black Diaspora--Ewart Guinier, professor of Afro-American Studies; Olara Otunnu, general secretary, Uganda Freedom Union; and Robert van Lierop, editor, Review of African Political Economy; Rm. 101, Pound Bldg...
William Loeb-- publisher, Manchester Union Leader, Multi-Purpose Rm., Pound Building...
...other direction. He is widely regarded as a reincarnation of America's cultural expatriates of the 1920s. When the catalogue essay for his present show of 50 drawings and a few paintings at New York City's Marlborough Gallery compares him with Idaho-born Ezra Pound in London-"the Yankee outsider who has the energy to float a circus, and the courage to initiate its polemics"-it reflects this startling English view...
Kitaj is not Pound. But he is one of the most inventive figurative artists at work today, and his ambition-to make the whole of modernist culture, literary, political and visual, available to painting as a subject-is a large brave one. "If some of us wish to practice art for art's sake alone, so be it," he wrote in 1976. "But good pictures, great pictures, will be made to which many modest lives can respond. When I'm told that good art has never been like that, I doubt it, and in any case it seems...