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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...forward social change. None of the exhilarating sense of release from Rome and of their free-wheeling new identity, which are part of the experience of the movement, is felt from the Berrigan work. What should be a spiritual bacchanalia comes off more like a wake. It's no wonder that the film closed early, and no shame. I could only see it attracting the Berrigans' close friends and the backers' relatives...

Author: By Michael Sragow, | Title: The Catonsville Bomb | 6/13/1972 | See Source »

...unproved." Some objections focus on the use of liquid sodium (a tricky substance that explodes on contact with water and burns in air) as a cooling medium. Others concern the fuel, plutonium, the basic ingredient of the hydrogen bomb and one of the deadliest substances known. Finally, the critics wonder how to get rid of radioactive wastes from any nuclear reactor, some of which remain lethal for 500,000 years. At present, the AEC plans to store them in large concrete containers at an as yet unspecified location. Then they must be watched (and watched). "We are committing future generations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Energy Crisis: Are We Running Out? | 6/12/1972 | See Source »

...President Nixon has repeatedly stated that he does not wish to be the first American President to preside over a defeat. One cannot but wonder how he feels about presiding over Armageddon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 5, 1972 | 6/5/1972 | See Source »

...help you make it through some pretty tough times. When I'm tired enough, I can get behind anything on WRKO. The Stones, the Who, and the Faces are great sure, but so are the Honey Cone, Aretha Franklin, the Osmonds, Glen Campbell in his better moments, Chicago, Stevie Wonder, Tommy James, Joe South, maybe even the Carpenters, if it's late at night and you're someplace on the Ohio Turnpike eighty miles short of Cleveland. To be certain, most of it is stupid, but it's not supposed to be smart. It's supposed to make you dance...

Author: By Andy Klein, | Title: If Mick Jagger's An Exile on Main St. .......Then I'm an Okie from Muskogee | 6/5/1972 | See Source »

...wonder whether some of this opposition isn't obstructing for the sake of obstructing," he said. "It isn't fair to blame us for the housing shortage and then refuse to let us put up housing...

Author: By Seth M. Kupferberg, | Title: City Environment Committee Debates University Housing Near Somerville | 5/31/1972 | See Source »

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