Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Administration began releasing figures to show how much money it thinks the average American consumer would actually be saving ?instead of losing?under the President's program. And Jimmy Carter had clearly achieved his first, vital goal: he had captured the public's attention and convinced a vast majority of Americans that the nation's energy shortage was genuine and steadily growing worse...
Where will it end? It must end in a return to the days before 1800, to the days before the fossil fuels powered a vast machine industry and technology. It must end in subsistence farming and in a world population reduced by starvation, disease and violence to less than a billion...
Bellow's Henderson is a man of vast comic incongruity. Kirchner's hero (even though splendidly performed by Bass Ara Berberian) is a one-dimensional klutz. The pity is that there is so much good music in Lily - the Bartokian orchestral evocation of the jungle, the sweet, pristine chants of the natives, the often amusing coloratura chirping of Lily (Susan Belling...
...Angeles rockers do not lack for private places in which to party. Alice Cooper, Brian Wilson and Al Kooper all have swimming pools and vast game rooms. Joni Mitchell, Ringo Starr, Bernie Taupin and Rod Stewart have airy mansions where hundreds could play...
...volume that should benefit from the vast store of recent revisionist views, there are unpardonable omissions. Davis tells at length the tragedy of the Indians of the East, uprooted and sent West on the Trail of Tears. But in the next section, Colleague David Herbert Donald (who writes crisply on the Civil War) reduces the entire Indian conflict in the West to one paragraph. Americans of Puerto Rican or Mexican origin are given hardly a nod, and then a misguided one: the book asserts that Cesar Chavez's United Farm Workers movement "declined...