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...tempted or prodded into burning the coal in the prodigious quantities that the National Energy Plan contemplates. Officially, Washington's answer is put bluntly by Secretary of Energy James Schlesinger: "We have no alternative." Unless coal is developed as rapidly as possible, the nation will have to squander more and more of its treasure on imported oil. Domestic production of petroleum, natural gas and nuclear power cannot expand fast enough to fill...
...archetypal European, believed that the world was created anew each morn, Americans had a more practical faith: the world and its riches were inexhaustible, easily accessible and-above all-theirs. The American megalopolis of superhighways, hermetically sealed buildings and shopping malls enclosed in artificial climates seems almost designed to squander energy in the unconscious belief that it can never...
Claude Chabrol's brilliant film (in translation, A Piece of Pleasure) is not to be understood as a triangle à la mode. It is not about love or even about the ways we contrive to squander it. Nor is it to be read as a women's lib tract. Rather, the film examines the psychology of marital separation, to show us as no movie ever has some of the mental states one must endure in this increasingly common condition...
...Section 18. Mr. Aronson cannot find fault with the team, however, because for the first two and a half periods Harvard skated circles around their opponents, building up a two goal advantage. A "quiet" crowd did not seem to affect their performance then. The team proceeded to quickly squander their lead, which according to Mr. Aronson, was the band's fault. Would Mr. Aronson have praised the band if Harvard had hung on to win? I think not! For that matter, how often is the band, Section 18 or the loyal fan given even a share of the credit...
What Banfield is subtly arguing for is a new kind of rugged individualism. If the lower class is to follow the good path of middle-classification, its members must work hard and forego the sex and action of the streets. They must adopt the Protestant work ethic and not squander their meager pay checks on liquor or drugs. But where is the lower class person to get the job that will give him the chance to put the nose to the grindstone? Only through eliminating minimum wage laws does Banfield say these jobs will be forthcoming...