Word: soiling
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...Since 1962, four million acres of Vietnam have been sprayed with 100 million pounds of assorted defoliants and herbicides. These anti-plant chemicals, used to defoliate woody canopies and to destroy enemy crops, can cause permanent damage to soil, agriculture, and people...
...snarled traffic, and the soot that boils in across the brown Sumida River from the blast furnaces of Kawasaki, which has 3,000 industrial plants and a population of 940,000. Two-thirds of Tokyo is still without sewers; residents are served by "honeybucket" men, trucks and a "night-soil fleet" of disposal ships, some as big as 1,000 tons, that make daily dumping trips offshore. "Don't worry," a crewman smiles, "the Black Current will take it all toward...
...Washington's clumsily expressed concern over possible genocide in defeated Biafra early last week, were reported close to breaking off relations with the U.S. Their hostility was underscored by an editorial in the Lagos Daily Express: "We offer no greetings to William Rogers as he steps on Nigerian soil today. For whatever bright promises and goody-goody talks he may utter, we still consider him persona non grata . . . the enemy of this country...
...would never make a film outside Italy," Federico Fellini said recently. "I would be an alien, unable to understand the subtle shadings of character and gesture. I would be like a tree uprooted, unhealthy out of its own soil." It is canny advice that should have been heeded by the maestro's peer and countryman, Michelangelo Antonioni, whose movies seem to deteriorate in direct proportion to the distance they are made from home...
...good. But in doing this, Matthiessen ends by transforming his book into an elaborate parable of soul-and-soil survival. The result, alas, is a peculiarly frustrating failure of excellence. The richness of Matthiessen's qualifications and subject have worked against him. In his attempt to do justice to all the possibilities of his theme, he has turned himself into an author wearing too many hats...