Word: sierras
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...actions of all of the characters are controlled by the omnicient Dr. Ma-Gico (Sierra Bandit), who calls each scene before it occurs, directs every action, no matter how perverse, and who even, in an ultimate expression of her power, controls the other actors with strings, driving them into a frenzy of jerky movements. Ma-Gico is the only character who is capable of moving freely throughout most of the play; the other characters either do as they are told or echo from the sidelines the actions and words of the principals of each scene, often creating extremely comic exchanges...
...Your article on Alaska [Aug. 20] treated the Sierra Club rather unfairly, focusing upon the exaggerations and extreme statements made by conservationists, and airing the industrialists' side of the controversy...
...Sierra Club and Secession
...Sierra Club does not oppose "progress and growth," in Alaska or anywhere else. We do oppose the construction of the Alaska pipeline on the grounds that alternative routes were not adequately studied, nor were sufficient studies done relating to possible hazards resulting from the trans-Alaska pipeline's construction...
Others agree that conservationist demands often seem unreasonable in an Alaskan context. "As long as they stuck to protecting the environment, the Sierra Club was a very worthwhile organization," says Chuck Evans, vice president of the First National Bank of Anchorage. "But when they start attacking progress and profit, they're out of their realm." One bumper sticker puts it more crudely: "Let the bastards freeze in the dark...