Word: webbing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ONLY book I can remember crying over when I was a kid is E.B. White's Charlotte's Web. I was ashamed for having cried, and I still am, but there was something about the death of Charlotte, a common grey spider, that made me unable to help it. Her death doesn't seem so sad now-all spiders have to die at the end of a year, and Charlotte dies only when her time comes...
...Charlotte's Web is a moving story in other ways: E. B. White is one of America's greatest essayists, as well as one of our greatest storytellers. Listening to him read Charlotte's Web will make you remember some of the more important things you used to know as a kid, but have forgotten. It may also help you to believe (or at least make you want to believe) in some of the things you believed in as a kid, but have lost...
...Seamless Web. Lessing acknowledges that the "apocalyptic mood has been stirred by some very palpable social miscarriages of science and technology"-notably the Indochina war and the environmental crisis. Still, he cannot accept "the proposition that America needs less growth, less knowledge, less skill, less progress." Scientists and engineers, he says, "are increasingly cast as the villains of this emotional drama. But it should be obvious that science by its nature and structure can offer society only options." Lessing points out that the traditional role of scientists is advisory, and as often as not their advice is ignored. "The height...
There is also danger in the notion that society can choose what it wants of science and destroy what it feels is valueless or threatening. "Science is indivisible," Lessing states, "a seamless web of accumulated knowledge, and to destroy a part would rip the whole fabric. Every discovery or invention of man has this dual aspect"-a potential for both benefit and harm. He warns that it does no good to try to retreat to an earlier century, and he quotes Konrad Lorenz, the famed naturalist and animal behaviorist, who has been warning hostile student audiences that if they tear...
...dream of this reality is "a great web of patterning oscillations and quiverings" somewhere in a "finer air" beyond the earth. She visualizes a perspective from which mankind looks like "a minute grey crust here and there." Amid the harmony of the spheres "life is one" and "I" is no longer divorced from...