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...farewell to a fading epoch, it also offers a glimpse of what lies ahead. The snooping newsreel journalist heralds the advent of the mass media, a trademark of the age. In one of the movie's most intriguing scenes, upon request, passengers perform arias for a troop of sweaty, soot-besodden stokers in the ship's bow, auguring the workingman's increasing visibility. And, of course, there...
Other damage to the room was the result of soot and smoke, resident Janet S. Hong '86 said...
...could not compete with the perceived interests of the University and the complaints of neighbors so sensitive as to demand that their windows be washed by Harvard after soot from last year's press box fire dirtied them. In his final decision that came at the last minute for the Breakers, President Bok said, "[the University] reluctantly decided that it could not enter into agreement because of very strong opposition from portions of the University and community. In particular, there were active feelings within Harvard that [the Breakers'] plan would conflict with our academic mission...
...solemn procession moved out of the gates of the giant steel mill at Nowa Huta, an industrial city less than ten miles from Cracow, and began to make its way across railroad tracks and cinder heaps to a hill overlooking the foundry. Many workers in the column carried their soot-smudged vermilion hard hats under their arms. Others held bunches of chrysanthemums or evergreen wreaths bedecked with ribbons bearing bold messages like IT is BETTER TO DIE STANDING UP THAN LIVE ON YOUR
Nonetheless, burning wood has important drawbacks. It produces polluting gases, soot and ashes and has sharply increased the number of burn victims treated by hospitals. Such considerations lead planners to downplay wood's potential. Says a Department of Energy spokesman: "Wood fuel is important, but nuclear power is still the most viable alternative energy source available...