Word: vastness
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Greg Stahl wrote A.T.C. in William Alfred's playwrighting class here at Harvard, so it is in parts, as one might expect, somewhat jejune. There are dialogue deserts of vast extent, some of the structure is mistaken or awkward, and the characterization can be shallow. This said, it should be added that pieces of A.T.C. are so startlingly good, so funny and true to life and viscerally engaging, that it is a joy: there are brilliant flecks of mica in the granatic escarp...
...energy shortage of the last decade has catapulted American Indian tribes, under whose lands lie vast domestic energy resources, into a politically influential but tenuous position. American Indian tribes own more than 50 per cent of this country's known reserves of uranium--deposits that account for more than 4 per cent of the total world uranium output. More than one-third of the nation's surface coal lies on Indian lands, areas that have also been proposed as sites for future synthetic fuel plants. But in recent years, legislation has been proposed in Congress to limit the control...
...nourish. Growing is what the place does best. There are 298,000 federal civilian workers in the Washington area today, compared with 2,200 in Lincoln's time. These hordes are attended in various ways by lobbyists, lawyers, accountants, special interest groups, consultants and journalists, all in vast numbers. The number of lawyers alone would drive Plato to despondency. Ever since Government started going after business, business started hiring lawyers. In July 1973 there were 10,925 attorneys listed as members of the District of Columbia bar. Two months ago, the count was up to 33,457. Naturally...
...workers and buy additional raw materials and new equipment. Greatly expanded contacts with other countries, particularly the industrialized democracies of Japan and the West, have begun bringing China advanced technical knowledge and a growing impatience to liberalize still more. But this form of modernization has many hazards in a vast Communist state, a fact that China's new leaders are very much aware of. The ambitious, flexible programs that China has begun will produce tensions and fissures in a society long controlled by force and regimentation. Even as statues of Mao are vanishing all across China and the trial...
...Streets, and helped change the Doobies from journeymen to super stars. McDonald's sprightly, airy tunes telescoped neatly with Templeman's cushy production. The results had hints of funk and disco, discreet jazz inflections and uninsistent horn breaks, and sounded like contemporary nightclub music. McDonald, who professes vast admiration for R & B luminaries like Marvin Gaye and Sam and Dave as well as tunesmiths like Burt Bachrach, says, "I like to write hits. My biggest reason for writing a song is to have it on the radio. It's kind of a Tin Pan Alley approach...