Word: whether
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...they happy?" he asked, studying a group of Rendille tribesmen resting under a tree. He then wanted to know, "What do they do ail day long?" Told that they tended cattle, he persisted: "Yes. But what do they do while they're tending cattle?" And later he wondered whether "these local people have a pagan religion." To such questions posed by California Governor Jerry Brown, his African hosts could only smile...
...prices are up and supplies are down, but people the world over are confused and skeptical about whether an energy crisis exists. If the crunch is for real, they wonder how bad it is, who caused it, where it is leading, and what should be done to cope with it. For the answers, TIME interviewed at length five leading independent oil experts. They are: Morris Adelman, 62, professor of economics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Walter Levy, 68, the dean of petroleum consultants and adviser to governments and oil companies; John Lichtblau, 57, head of the private Petroleum Industry Research...
LICHTBLAU: When you decontrol and raise the price of oil, less will be consumed. But whether more oil will be found is not clear. There will be some additional production, and more money will be spent to get secondary and tertiary recovery from older wells...
...that the film shares with works like L'Avventura and Blow-Up, whose director, Michelangelo Antonioni, has obviously had an influence on Peter Weir. As in the master's work, the criminal, if there is one, is society. It does not matter to Weir whether there was a sexual criminal lurking up there among the rocks, awaiting these young women who are easy prey, or if their own erotic repression led to some self-destructive hysterical act. The point is that the repression existed, and that it was not created by its victims...
This conflict dominates The Snow Leopard, but only beneath the surface. The only reason it emerges at all is because Matthiessen has written a flawless book. He has explained life as he saw it and lived it, as a man among wonders. Whether he is able to become one with them or not is immaterial to the working of the book, though it is not immaterial to the working of the man. Through his descriptions, observations and perception, Matthiessen is able to blend history and culture, religion and nature ceaselessly and perfectly. Nothing is out of place, nothing is missing...