Word: wayes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Carter's program would have little direct, short-term impact on the economy. It will take time for the biggest construction contracts to be let out, for the huge rail and mining jobs to get under way. Actually building a synfuel plant could require five years or more, and environmental objections and court protests might drag out projects even longer. The size of the spending appears smaller when reckoned at an average $14 billion a year, spread out over ten years. That is a relatively small part of an economy that now produces $2.3 trillion worth of goods...
...ships still slaughtering whales, none is more loathed by conservationists than the infamous Sierra. Flying the Cyprus flag and owned by a shadowy Liechtenstein-based company, possibly with Japanese interests, the pirate whaler ignores all whaling agreements, hunts indiscriminately and makes its kills in a particularly cruel way: instead of the explosive-tipped harpoons used by most whalers, it employs the unarmed type. These do less damage to whale meat but only prolong the agony of the great mammals, often attracting other whales who, in trying to help their beleaguered brethren, are themselves caught. Last week, in a dramatic reversal...
...Soviet critics thought they heard a masterpiece when this, Shostakovich's second opera, was premiered in 1934. Then Stalin walked out of a performance and they listened again. This time they heard "din, gnash and screech" (Pravda). The work was withdrawn, and Shostakovich pursued more orthodox ways. A sanitized version, unveiled in 1963, found its way to the West on records, but this is the first recording of the original score. Harsh, erotic and turbulent with Dostoevskian emotions, it is a tale of small-town adultery and murder, laced with cynicism about the police. Rostropovitch and the cast, including...
...Darwin, Eiseley argues persuasively, was more than just a little familiar with Blyth's work, and even quoted from one of his papers. But Darwin never publicly acknowledged, let alone discharged, his debt to Blyth, and history has been no kinder. Eiseley's ex pose in no way diminishes Charles Dar win's importance, but it does help ex plain his achievement. Like other scientists who were also able to see great distances, he was standing on the shoulders of giants. -Peter Stoler
...idea is marvelous: send a gentle, pious and very stupid young Polish rabbi to the U.S. in 1850 to take over a congregation in wicked San Francisco. Shlepping his way overland from Philadelphia, he will be tricked by con men, be friended by a lonesome bank robber, roasted by the desert sun, frozen by mountain storms, captured by Indians, and from sea to shining sea, he will cause wise men to marvel at his unparalleled and in exhaustible nitwittedness. With Gene Wilder as the woodenheaded rabbi and Harrison Ford as the lovable bank robber, what could go wrong...