Word: though
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...takes a major writer to commit a major blunder. What Barth publishes matters, in capital Letters, and this novel will fuel brush fires in academic journals and little quarterlies for years to come. Considerations will be reconsidered, opinions re-opined. At this moment though, Barth looks like a magician who has described too fully the trip wires up his sleeve or the spare tiger dozing fitfully in a box just offstage. As he talks on and on, piling analysis upon explanation, the audience slowly files out. If Joyce's Ulysses was the milestone of modernism, Barth's Letters...
Another question lingered: Was the leaking truly dangerous? Though radioactive, tritium is a hydrogen isotope emitting only low-energy beta particles that cannot penetrate uncut skin. If ingested, tritium may mix with body chemicals, but no biological damage has ever been proven. That ambiguity did not trouble state officials. "If a person breathes in tritium, it doesn't have to be strong to do harm," contends Ken Geiser, acting director of the Arizona atomic energy commission...
...doomed after all. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, which helped transplant much of the snail darter population to the nearby Hiwassee River, says that while their future is not yet assured, the fish are doing well so far. But the dam itself may not have a happy ending. Though Mayor Charles Hall of Tellico Plains (pop. 1,000) predicts the project will create 10,000 jobs over the next two decades, a new report by the Tennessee Valley Authority and the U.S. Department of the Interior concludes that the river and the farm land untouched would have brought even...
...actress who started as a shilling-a-week trouper in working men's clubs and in her heyday became the world's highest-paid star; in Capri, Italy. Born Grace Stansfield in the mill town of Rochdale, she sang at age eight in the local cinema. Though never a beauty and hardly a diva, she set music halls roaring in the '20s with her cheeky Lancastrian banter, stouthearted warbling and flea-scratching, "low-but-clean" brand of clowning. Her 1931 film debut in Sally in Our Alley gave her a theme song, Sally, and endeared...
...Though most women quit work earlier than Jacobson and Cook, indications are that not much time is being lost because of pregnancy. A 1977 Defense Department study showed that Army women lose an average of three working hours per month because of pregnancy. A Navy study done the same year found that women lose less time than men, partly because of the male penchant for alcohol, drugs and general roistering. Females miss an average of 4.22 days a year, compared with 7.03 for males...