Word: rachele
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nine years since Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring first documented DDT's disastrous effects on animal life, environmentalists have carried on a determined campaign against the potent pesticide. The U.S. Government has responded to their efforts by restricting the use of DDT. Several states have gone even further, banning the chemical completely. But DDT still has its defenders. The World Health Organization, admittedly more concerned with public health than conservation, has warned that a ban on DDT spraying could doom worldwide malaria-eradication efforts, which in the past 25 years have freed more than 1 billion people...
...walk a block out of one's way to cut him dead. Put him down in a maze or a sewer and he would run as hard. Michael's social self is pathological. With colleagues, he does not talk, he connives. As for women-including his mistress Rachel Roberts-he never makes love with them but at them. Even his father's death elicits a distorted reaction. The old man has been beaten by a Liverpool Teddy boy. The Irish cronies, suddenly repossessed by memories of the Black and Tans, keen for revenge. Marler coshes the killer...
...skinny schizoid, and her mannerisms in this, a strikingly similar role, take on their own campy charm. She clutches her breast and shudders with a frail quiver wholly natural. One merely hopes that bathrobes and flannel nightgowns will not become her uniform. Estelle Parsons, similarly, had practice in Rachel, Rachel for her part here as the frustrated schoolmarm. I think, if anything, she has improved the characterization which won her an academy award nomination. Her acting is superb throughout, and since she is the most articulate of Zwindel's characters, most of the Neil Simon-like one-liners which spice...
...astonishing achievement of the year," says Ecologist Lamont Cole of Cornell, "is that people are finally aware of the size of the problem." They can hardly avoid it. In 1970, the cause that once concerned lonely crusaders like Rachel Carson became a national issue that at times verged on a national obsession; it appealed even to people normally enraged by attacks on the status quo. With remarkable rapidity it became a tenet in the American credo, at least partially uniting disparate public figures ranging from Cesar Chavez to Barry Goldwater and New York's conservative Senator-elect James Buckley...
...Woman of the Year? The idea is enticing. May I suggest two for nomination: Margaret Mead and Rachel Carson...