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...destroyed. Lessing echoes the warning of Biochemist Philip Handler, president of the National Academy of Sciences: "If we forswear more science and technology, there can be no cleaning up cities, no progress in mass transportation, no salvage of our once beautiful landscape and no control of overpopulation. Those who scoff at technological solutions to these problems have no alternative solutions...
...things, it seems, are required to get us out of this uniquely twentieth century dilemma. First, a new consciousness. While many will scoff at Charles Reich, there are few who do not feel that we are headed for a big show-down with history. We are profoundly pessimistic and peculiarly optimistic at the prospect: convinced that some huge deluge is going to be unleashed, we are nevertheless aroused by the notion that an exceptional future lies before us on the wings of technology and a new awareness. The vanguard of this consciousness may well be a new Romanticism, which leads...
...ecologists scoffed at faddists who denounced colored toilet paper on the theory that the dyes polluted rivers. "Poppycock!" said Du Pont's chemists, and no other experts disagreed. UNIVERSAL YEARNING. Yet the backlash soon waned. Whatever exaggerations may have been committed by the environmental evangelists, no one could really scoff at the new American concern with "the quality of life," the universal yearning for clean air and water, quiet cities and communion with nature. That yearning gave rise to scores of new environmental books, from The Tyranny of Noise to The Politics of Ecology. It spurred myriad official responses, from...
...Plymouth split over belief in the Trinity, and took a vote. The losers would leave the congregation. The Unitarians won the election, but lost their church to fire a century later. The pastor of the trinitarian Church of the Pilgrimage across the street could not resist the opportunity to scoff a bit. "We kept the faith," said a sign he hung outside his church. "They kept the furniture...
...disbelief, terror." He was the first American to dare Hamlet in Britain since John Barrymore, and, premiere night, a full cry of London critics rode to Birmingham for the kill -and for a shock. Wrote the Times critic the next morning: "Anyone who comes to this production prepared to scoff at the sight of a popular American television actor playing Hamlet will be in for a deep disappointment...