the BaBoom, will continue to account for 57 percent of the population.
Moreover, recent changes in conventional family structure will prob- ably boost per capita energy consumption. More working wives create higher household incomes; and in 1975, households with $30,000 to $35,000 incomes spent 52 percent more on energy for heating and transportation than those living on $10,000 to $15,000. The growing ranks of singles tend to inhabit condominiums and apartments-which use 38 percent less energy...
shower- ing the N.R.C. with objections to design details, or to a utility's en-vironmental impact estimates-and then persuading judges that the commission gave them short shrift. Between 1966 and 1970, the typical reactor-construction schedule increased in the United States from just under five years to just over seven years.
contrast, the political parties of France, West Germany, Sweden, and Britain stake out firm positions on atomic issues. Once in power, they claim a popular mandate on nuclear...
1945, 15 tons of guayule rubber could be processed daily. But after the war, breakthroughs in synthetic rubber production ended the need. The plants were burned off to make way for orange groves.
Guayule latex comes from the shrub's branches and roots. The plants contain up to 20 percent rubber. Guayule needs no irrigation or pes- ticides. Unlike hevea, the shrub can be mechanically cultivated and harvested.
The National Science Foundation and the U.S. Agriculture and Commerce Departments have...
a truth-seeking process; and the threat to society posed an official vendetta against an individual. Missing, however, is the gradual acceptance of guilt by Kafka's protagonists.
Kafka both resented and accepted authority. Biographers have traced his "self-corrosive guilt" to a threatening, domineering father. In Beiliss's undeserved plight, Band suggests, Kafka glimpsed a vehicle for expressing his own feelings.
"Andrew Wyeth: Popular Painting and Not Nostalgia Populism" by...
Sheldon Liebman, in Ameri-AS Critic can Literature (May 1980), Duke Univer- sity Press Bldg., East Campus, Duke Uni- versity, Durham, N.C. 27706.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) adamantly refused to publicize his theories about poetry. He nevertheless established himself as a major critic of verse in letters to friends and in interviews, writes Liebman, professor of English at the University of Illinois, Chicago Circle.
Frost believed that the creative process begins with a descent into "chaos."...
Sheldon Liebman, in Ameri-AS Critic can Literature (May 1980), Duke Univer- sity Press Bldg., East Campus, Duke Uni- versity, Durham, N.C. 27706.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) adamantly refused to publicize his theories about poetry. He nevertheless established himself as a major critic of verse in letters to friends and in interviews, writes Liebman, professor of English at the University of Illinois, Chicago Circle.
Frost believed that the creative process begins with a descent into "chaos."...
Stanley Reed, SYY~~'S in Foreign Policy (Summer 1980) P.O. Box
984, Farmingdale, N.Y. 1 1737.
Before Syria's President Hafez al-Assad seized power in November 1970, the nation had suffered through 20 military coups in 24 years. Since then, Syria's once stagnant economy has grown nearly 8 per-cent annually (though per capita national output is only $goo), in a decade of unprecedented political stability. But growing resentment against Assad at home and Syria's failures abroad may doom the re- gime,...
Donald Ro-
World Series den, in American Historical Review (Summer 1980), 400 A St. S.E., Washing- ton. D.C. 20003.
With an intimidating show of force, Commodore Matthew C. Perry opened Japan to trade with the West in 1853. The jolt he dealt to Japanese national pride did not wear off until the 1890s. Helping to ease the loss of face, writes Roden, a Rutgers historian, was Japan's military victory over China (in 1895), the development of a strong Western-style constitutional government, the growth...
the West in 1975 (at an East-West conference in Helsinki). Finland's independence, he reasons, is part of a comfortable status quo. A greater threat to Finland's future are "the bright lights of the open society in the West," notably Sweden, which has drawn 200,000 Finnish emig- rants since 1945.
A Woman's Place "Ideology, ~yth, and Reality: Sex Equal-ity in Israel" Selma Koss Brandow, in
in Israel Sex Roles: A Journal ofResearch (vol. 6,no. 3, 1980), Plenum Publishing Corp.,...
the West in 1975 (at an East-West conference in Helsinki). Finland's independence, he reasons, is part of a comfortable status quo. A greater threat to Finland's future are "the bright lights of the open society in the West," notably Sweden, which has drawn 200,000 Finnish emig- rants since 1945.
A Woman's Place "Ideology, ~yth, and Reality: Sex Equal-ity in Israel" Selma Koss Brandow, in
in Israel Sex Roles: A Journal ofResearch (vol. 6,no. 3, 1980), Plenum Publishing Corp.,...