Word: searchingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Much of the American grief in Viet Nam was played out in the national imagination by way of movies and television. If the grunts on search-and-destroy in the Central Highlands sometimes kept themselves going with a jolt of John Wayne from The Sands of two Jima, the people at home took their war each night live in their living rooms, mainlined by television directly into the bloodstream. Viet Nam was so intimately recorded that it became almost unendurably real-yet also impossibly remote, 9,000 miles away, a dark hallucination. And along with the war on the tube...
...program: "It's bad economic policy, it's bad energy policy, and it's bad for the country." Legislators from Texas, Oklahoma and other petrobelt states argue that Carter's tax is unnecessary and that oil companies would spend the profits of decontrol on the search for more petroleum anyway...
Oilmen insist that all the profits of decontrol, not just some of them, are urgently needed to finance the search for crude. Asks Hugh Liedtke, chairman of Pennzoil Co.: "Are we to raise more tax money or raise more oil?" But some of the biggest firms are swinging around to an emotional accommodation with the idea of a tax, so long as it is phased out in a couple of years. What they want is a temporary levy with a so-called plow-back provision. Under it, companies would be able to reduce their windfall profits taxes each year...
...companies to deduct from their U.S. income taxes the royalties they pay to OPEC. The companies would then have greater incentive to explore for oil in non-OPEC nations. We should emulate Japan and Germany and set up a program partially funded by the Government to finance the search for new oil finds. Finally, we should impose an import quota on OPEC oil and create a North American free trade zone for energy to encourage deliveries from Mexico and Canada...
Even though Matthiessen believes that the answer to being his raison d'etre, is locked up within himself, at his core. He has to search to find that inner self, to "come home." The expedition is a search, his meditations are a search, even his writing a book is a search. None of the three take place in the present. The expedition was planned and executed. It didn't just emerge; it wasn't just there. Nor is meditation anything more than an active pursuit of self-knowledge, while writing is looking backwards. Putting pen to paper involves memory...