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Mourning Becomes Electra is like a day of wild wind and rain that finally reduces everyone and everything to a sodden, nerveless pulp. O'Neill transposed the Oresteia-the legend of the doomed Greek house of Atreus-to post-Civil War New England and laced it with Freudianism. O'Neill never achieves the catharsis of pity and terror, only the strangulated sob of a guilty Christian conscience: "I believed in heaven. Now I know there is only hell...
When they found him dead in his bed, his face was discolored and swollen. An autopsy disclosed that his skull had been fractured and part of his brain reduced to a pulp. After careful investigation, the police established that there had been two murderers and identified them as brothers who lived in a neighboring apartment. The killers had dropped their victim repeatedly on the floor, struck him again and again with a woman's high-heeled shoe and bitten him several times. What was even more unusual, however, was the age of those involved in the case: the slayers...
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Environmentally progressive Oregon seems on the verge of solving one of its biggest coastal-pollution problems. Governor Tom McCall recently restricted the number of logs that could be stored on waters around timber-processing and pulp plants. The new policy is designed to reduce the bark and debris that, as they decompose, consume precious oxygen and thereby choke marine life. Says McCall's environmental chief, L.B. Day: "We think we can start harvesting oysters in Coos Bay in a couple of years...
Though Washington has its success story-the cleanup of Seattle harbor with $145 million worth of sewage-treatment plants-Puget Sound is still being polluted by discharges from pulp and paper mills. Indeed, the mills have been granted up to eleven years to comply with federal and state water-quality laws, mainly to avoid straining the state's already depressed economy...