Word: wakefulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Maybe your article on the energy crisis [June 12] will at last wake up a couple of million people on what is to come next Here in the Southwest we will again be exploited by builders of power plants whose benefits go to southern Nevada and California. It should be interesting to watch a modern-day range war come into play when Southwestern farmers, already severely handicapped by drought, have to give up water and clean air to run those belching poisonous monsters that provide power for electric toothbrushes, hair-setters, shavers, cutting knives, can openers and pencil sharpeners...
...commander in Viet Nam indicates that he has not lost the talent. Now he faces a still tougher task. Nominated last week by President Nixon to succeed General William C. Westmoreland as Army Chief of Staff, Abrams, 57, must tackle the job of regenerating the Army in the wake of Viet Nam and, if Nixon has his way, presiding over its conversion to an all-volunteer force...
...members of the nine-nation Asian and Pacific Council (ASPAC)-gathered in Seoul last week, no one needed to remind them that their organization was rapidly becoming outdated. When ASPAC was formed in 1966, Washington had hailed it as a bulwark of anti-Communist solidarity in Asia. In the wake of President Nixon's trip to Peking, however, many of ASPAC's members are now going to some lengths to play down that anti-Communist line in the hope of improving their own relations with China...
With his studies of Yeats, Proust, Joyce and Valery (Axel's Castle in 1931), he moved from literary magistrate to international judge. All of these artists, he said, "break down the walls of the present and wake us to the hope and exaltation of the untried, unsuspected possibilities of human thought...
...vicious." To heighten his perception, he has delved into drugs, fasted and conducted sexual experiments with his wife. To sharpen his powers of concentration, he races his Formula V car. Dominique Sanda, his co-star in The Conformist, describes him as "an eye that listens attentively." Says Trintignant: "I wake up in the morning and think, 'How would my character wash his teeth?' I build up a valise of ideas about him." With that valise, Trintignant never travels light...