Word: seeds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...WANTING SEED, by Anthony Burgess. Taking overpopulation as his theme, Novelist Burgess has measured its possible effects in a gruesome cautionary tale of the future wherein infanticide, cannibalism and government-planned extermination are imperative for survival of the human race...
...several years I have seen the seed of hate being planted by our newspapers and many of the leaders of Dallas. No matter what the President has been for, these people have been against...
...WANTING SEED by Anthony Burgess. 285 pages. Norton...
Anthony Burgess is a fantasist who has bad dreams. The Clockwork Orange (TIME, Feb. 15) concerned a police state so extreme that a teen-age rapist who talks in half-human gibberish be comes a symbol of heroic rebellion. The Wanting Seed is far less disastrous, but in its penny-plain style, it is a portrait of an anti-utopia that can be ranked with those of Orwell and Huxley...
Tony DeAngelis, a onetime butcher, made himself a wealthy man by steering his New Jersey-based Allied Crude Vegetable Oil Refining Corp. in and out of quick trades in the risky commodities futures market. Then DeAngelis thought he saw another chance for a fast fortune in soybean and cotton-seed-oil futures. If the Soviet bloc wheat crop failed, he reasoned, other farm products, including vegetable oils, must have suffered as well; and as soon as the Red nations had signed their wheat purchase contracts in the U.S., they would be back bidding on oils and other U.S. produce. DeAngelis...