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...Beethoven (Viking); in science, George L. Small's ecological lament for the disappearance of The Blue Whale (Columbia University); in philosophy and religion, Martin E. Marty's Righteous Empire: The Protestant Experience in America (Dial); and for translation, Austryn Wain-house's heroic failure to quite transform French Nobel Prizewinner Jacques Monod's prolix inquiry into biological evolution Chance and Necessity (Knopf) into readable English...
...process by which garbage can be converted into oil is called pyrolysis, the use of heat to transform materials. It was by this means that plant and animal remains were originally converted by underground heat into the world's present reserves of oil, coal and natural gas. In Garrett's design, raw garbage straight from the ashcan would be chopped into gravel-sized pieces by an enormous shredder, then run through a dryer to remove moisture. An air classifier would separate the inorganic matter (metals, glass) from the organic (paper, food wastes). The organic matter would then...
...fooling that, after a while, analysis stops; instead, one submits to the pressure of light that emanates from the field. Color becomes an absolute phenomenon; it needs to depict nothing to reveal its action. It may be that no American painter since Rothko has contrived to transform pigment into meditation more effectively than Zakanych. "I got completely sick of all the cool, boring, systematic painting that was around in New York a few years ago," he says. "I'm trying to break that down." And, it seems, succeeding...
...Yevtushenko read the same poem, the speakers overhead seemed to transform the one-ring Felt Forum into a rally hall of what kind I was not sure. The doubt was not clarified when Eugene McCarthy strode professionally up on the stage. McCarthy wore a dark three piece suit. A ragged book of some kind was shoved in his left pocket. He looked and evidently felt a little out of place. It was hard to see him in place anywhere, but this forum of poetry and politics seemed as good a place as any, a place both beneath and above...
...Harvard Steering Committee on Child Care met last night to adopt a proposal to transform itself from a committee to a permanent council, but failed to take action...