Word: stream
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...play ends happily- a pact Simon always keeps with his audience. When will he choose to keep the compact he seems to want to make with himself - to plunge hip-deep-bold instead of toe-deep-scared into the consciousness stream of the real Neil Simon? - T.E. Kalem
That sentiment, written by British Author Hilaire Belloc, may well be echoed by the authors and publishers who send some 60 volumes per week to the TIME Books section in the hope that their works will be reviewed. As Christmas approaches, the incoming stream becomes a torrent in anticipation of our annual section on gift books, which appears in this issue. The new volumes-on subjects ranging from Peruvian highways to Sumerian icons, from precious plants to psychic phenomena-are delivered to the office of Books Editor Stefan Kanfer. "It's like getting a lot of Christmas cards...
...forced the evacuation of thousands. Water is competed for by fishing interests, farmers and the builders of power plants. The water that cools the nuclear reactors comes from nearby rivers and is later returned to them warm. Environmentalists claim that the warm water can disrupt the ecology of a stream. They are stubbornly fighting a plan to build two large nuclear plants on the shores of the Skagit River, campaigning to have a 59-mile stretch of it protected from any kind of development under the federal Wild and Scenic Rivers Act. The plants, Ray argues, are necessary and will...
Eventually, the workers pumped enough drillers' mud into the well to stop the flow of gas and permit the installation of proper wellhead equipment. Next year the well will go on stream at a manageable 20 million cu. ft. per day, six times the volume of a typical south Louisiana well and enough to meet the daily needs of 61,000 American homes...
...another project-and apprehensive. Directly across the street sits Princeton University's Firestone Library, the object of McPhee's window gazing. With 13 books to his credit in the past twelve years, the author seems determined to keep the neighboring library cataloguers working nights. "A great stream of ideas goes by," McPhee says, turning from the window. "The problem is how to pick one out that you want to spend a year or more working...