Word: wonderful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...intensely controversial issues before the country, the energy package is likely to generate the greatest tempest. Merely on the basis of leaked information, the program was already drawing heavy fire last week from labor leaders, the petroleum, coal and auto industries, and Congress. Small wonder, since the plan will raise fundamental questions about Americans' automobile-centered life-styles and their free-enterprise industrial system based on cheap and plentiful energy. A classic donnybrook is in the making, with the outcome very much in doubt...
...world outlook is apocalyptic, revivalist and born-again naive. Thus "the technology designed to provide against scarcity ultimately breeds more scarcity. What begins in fear must end in fear." Indeed. Ashes to ashes, dust to dust. But wait. Journal proclaims itself part of the alternative lifestyles movement, but you wonder whether they're not just copping-out. They look to the future like Tim Leary, more strung out today on pseudo-scientific concepts of change than on chemical psyche-changers, glossing over the uglier and more immediate problems of western life by liberally prophesying that...
Once past Mass Ave and into the Yard, there was no sweat. Widener quickly became a blur, and as I'd cut down the path between Sever and Emerson toward the Fogg--which I was in most of the time--I'd wonder why everyone thinks that good weather gives them a license to walk around with half of their clothes...
Mystery enshrouds Marcie, and for several chapters neither Oliver nor the reader knows her last name or what she does. As it turns out, her name is Binnendale, and if that sounds like a dullard's play on the name of a fashionable department store, no wonder. She is, in fact, owner of a fashionable chain of department stores. Surprise...
...Story, too. Those who found Love Story a slick collection of sentimental, tear-jerking trash will hate Oliver's Story just as much, if not more. Still, Oliver's Story currently is near the top of the bestseller lists, notwithstanding a conspicuous lack of quality. It makes you wonder again what people will read, and what kind of images they prefer to have place before them...