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President Carter has called the issue "the conservation decision of the century." At stake were more than 100 million acres of virgin forest, magnificent mountains and prospective oilfields in the country's largest state. The future of Alaskan lands was also one of the most contentious environmental questions of the day. Conservationists maintained that Alaska's timbered coastline and tundra needed strong federal protection. Developers and businessmen, supported by Alaska's top elected officials, argued that the Federal Government should not lock up virgin land before its soil and mineral wealth could be assessed. After almost four...
...attraction was the breathtakingly beautiful campus built amid a redwood forest high above California's Monterey Bay (students quickly dubbed the resort-like U.C.S.C. "Uncle Charley's Summer Camp"). Another was Santa Cruz's remarkable educational mission. Clark Kerr, longtime president of California's statewide university, had conceived Santa Cruz as a quiet, human-sized island within the state's gargantuan system. It was built around a collection of intimate colleges for students and faculty, as at Oxford. To Kerr's unexceptionable dream were added other more radical ideas in tune with the rebellious...
Based on the bestselling novel by Judith Guest, Redford's first directorial effort takes place in one of the wealthiest spots in the country, Lake Forest, Illinois, and the "ordinary" people are the Jarret family: Calvin, the father (Sutherland), a successful tax attorney and ineffectual nice guy; Beth, the mother (Moore), a gracious but icily repressed suburbanite; and Conrad, their son (Hutton), who spent four months in a mental hospital after slashing his wrists. Conrad's troubles unfold slowly: his older brother Buck (mother's favorite) died in a boating accident which Conrad survived. Beth "buried the best...
...beauty, expensive costumes, argyle sweaters and flannel knickers. We lust for the naked girl in the private railway car that streaks by on a summer night. We sniff at the air, spicing our senses with the scent of golden pine needles that drop like errant arrows to the forest floor...
...rock in their seats like the pistons of a vast, Teutonic engine screaming at maximum force. There were over one hundred reporters attached to the City Desk alone, and when their telephones began to fire, when their typewriters began to rattle like a line of Gatling guns, when the forest of beefy arms with sleeves rolled up began to lunge and punch and jab at the keyboards, the full fury of the men and women boxing their news into print would fill the whole, long room with crackline force...