Word: soon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...track the sun and focus its rays into a cyclops-like eye of red heat. A mountain in North Carolina has been crowned with what appears to be a giant aircraft propeller. A large man-made atoll, resembling a top that Gulliver would have spun for the Lilliputians, may soon be floating off the coast of California. All are imaginative, experimental devices to help find and develop alternative energies, which would alleviate the dangerous dependency on OPEC...
...municipal governments are experimentally burning all forms of natural growth, or biomass, including urban garbage, sugar cane, walnut shells and plants. At the same time, government-funded projects are examining means to extract energy from common biological wastes like animal manures. A poultry farmers' cooperative in Arkansas will soon recycle 100 tons of chicken manure daily to produce 1.2 million cu. ft. of methane equal to 12,000 gal. of gasoline; it is then used to power automobiles that have engines converted to accept methane. The DOE calculates that biomass now supplies 1% of the nation's energy...
...used in industry. Platinum, which is needed for pollution-fighting catalytic converters in cars, has risen an eye-popping 173%, to well over $400 an ounce, since the Soviet Union, a big supplier of the metal, started throttling back exports two years ago. Some market watchers expect it soon to hit $500. The demand last year for silver, used for coinage, camera film and tableware, was about 17 million ounces greater than the supplies of 433 million ounces from regular channels, and the remainder had to be made up by dipping into private stockpiles. A slowing of the world economy...
...first novel. He is callow in the ways of most aspiring authors but feels guilty about living off his small inheritance, since the money can be traced back to a slave sold by his family nearly a century earlier. Stingo takes a room in a Brooklyn boardinghouse and soon be comes involved with two other tenants: Nathan Landau, an American Jew, and Sophie Zawistowska, a Polish Gentile who bears on her arm a tattooed number from Auschwitz. Sophie is Nathan's lover, even though he flies into periodic rages and beats her. Stingo falls instantly in love with Sophie...
...gradual unfolding of Sophie's tale is affecting and thoroughly convincing.Styron gives her a core of individuality that elevates her role beyond that of a symbolic victim. True, her suffering has been freighted with irony. Her father and husband, both killed soon after the Germans invaded Poland, were vicious anti-Semites. Sophie admits that she regarded the beleaguered inhabitants of the Warsaw ghetto as a buffer that would protect her and her children. She refused to work for the Polish resistance. Her arrest was a matter of blind accident; she was caught smuggling a ham into Warsaw to give...