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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Taste of America, is symptomatic of a deeper problem. As we worry about the additives we are ingesting, we have forgotten about what the chemicals were originally added to preserve. We have been weaned on Instant Breakfast, raised on Tastycakes and Big Macs, and disciplined by the threat of "no dimes for a Dairy Queen." Our "gourmet" restaurants serve prepackaged, precooked Lobster Thermidor. Our cookbooks are compendiums of corporate-test-kitchen press releases. And the average sugar consumption in America--mostly of the refined, characterless variety--is one-third of a pound per day per American, which is more...

Author: By Marilyn L. Booth, | Title: In Good Taste | 5/2/1977 | See Source »

After languishing on the bench early in the season as a reserve attackman, Faught has won a starting spot on midfield, and has been the only real middie scoring threat the team has had in recent games. He garnered a second goal in the fourth quarter...

Author: By David Clarke, | Title: Tigers Pound Crimson Stickmen, 17-7 | 5/2/1977 | See Source »

...these represent some limits of Erikson's vision, however, the power still remains, as Roazen notes admiringly throughout his critique. It is a power that derives from Erikson's determination to concentrate on the positive strengths of man's ego, rather than on the negative threat of the aggressive id, as Freud did. Erikson's work is full of words like "adaptation," "leeway," "growth," and "ingenuity;" he moves past Sigmund and Anna Freud's focus on the defenses that repress or rechannel erupting inner drives, emphasizing instead the "potentialities" of fuller ego-adaption, attained through a mutually reinforcing and self...

Author: By Mark T. Whitaker, | Title: Subtlety of Mind | 4/29/1977 | See Source »

Harvard easily routed Yale by almost shutting the Elis out in the field events and the middle and long distance races. Only in the sprints did the Bulldogs present any threat...

Author: By David Wexler, | Title: Trackmen Run Over Yale, Ready for Championships | 4/27/1977 | See Source »

...issue is invested with such emotion that few anti-atom groups are pressuring for research into effective alternatives to nuclear power. They emphasize that nuclear accidents at reactor sites could unleash incalculably dangerous radiation. The environmentalists fear that radioactive wastes will be improperly disposed of, thus posing a threat to mankind for thousands of years to come. There is also widespread worry that atomic weapons will be fashioned from plutonium obtained from nuclear-energy plants. Says Pierre Strohl of the OECD's Nuclear Energy Agency: "Peaceful application of nuclear energy seems to be inseparable from the nightmarish images...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EUROPE: Crusading Against the Atom | 4/25/1977 | See Source »

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