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...vice president, and six other members of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) introduced to the AAAS governing council an unprecedented "emergency motion" for a strong condemnation of the continued United States involvement in the war and the application of American science and technology to the "wanton destruction of man and environment." The resolution was passed, 80-41, in a highly unusual public intrusion of politics into science...
...Elena leaves her furniture and furs to take responsiblity for her own life. But on the book's last page she fecklessly returns to Morrissey, just as he seems to have got clear of their disastrous affair and adjusted himself to his marriage. Is she a temptress, a wanton driven by forces she cannot control? Or does her resolve to lead her own life mean that she will finally not harm Morrissey? The depressing thing is that the preceding 561 pages-filled with incident, example, internal monologue, psychological speculation-do not furnish a clue...
...previous novels, the story takes off from the workaday world in search of the ineffable. The familiar trappings of Wright's baroque realism turn up: the taste of switch grass and cord grass, the loom of grain elevators, the feel of a kitten dropped by wanton boys into a country-school privy. But the subject is myth. Old, unbelieving, literal-minded Floyd Warner takes on immortal longings. Having defied common sense by taking a herd of sheep and a wife to the banks of the Pecos where God intended neither species to live, having defied humanity by his whole...
...owners for their operations, but leave the owners unharmed and deposit the cars scattered over the city when they no longer need them. They make it clear that they will kill if necessary but they are also smart enough to realize that their ends are not served by the wanton destruction of either lives or property...
...version. He had come to Viet Nam a "superhawk," but changed when con fronted with the cavalier shooting of villagers from U.S. helicopters ("like herding cattle with a pickup truck in Montana"), the corruption of South Vietnamese officials, the squandering of U.S. tax money, the wanton burning of villages, and the deliberate obfuscation of the facts by U.S. Government and military officials. At one point, Ellsberg told how South Vietnamese officials sold U.S. supplied cement on the black market, and made AID-financed schools out of little more than sand and water. "If you took a coin, you could scrape...