Chapter 5:
"The chisels of frost and ice split and shattered the rocks."
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- Mon Jul 23, 2012 8:29 pm
- Forum: Book Club
- Topic: Silent Spring – Favorite words
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- Mon Jul 23, 2012 3:45 pm
- Forum: Book Club
- Topic: Silent Spring – The Rocky Mountain Arsenal
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Silent Spring – The Rocky Mountain Arsenal
Interestingly, the Rocky Mountain Arsenal described by Carson as a source of "devastating" groundwater contamination, is now a National Wildlife Refuge. http://www.rma.army.mil/ Let's contrast Carson's telling of what occurred on that site in the 1940's - 50's with what the Rocky Mountain ...
- Mon Jul 23, 2012 2:59 pm
- Forum: Book Club
- Topic: Silent Spring – Book Club starts here on July 9th!
- Replies: 12
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Re: Silent Spring – Book Club starts here on July 9th!
It's Week Three and the door has opened on Chapters Seven through Ten.
Week Three, July 23 - 29
Chapters 7 - 10
Needless Havoc
And No Birds Sing
Rivers of Death
Indiscriminately from the Skies
Week Three, July 23 - 29
Chapters 7 - 10
Needless Havoc
And No Birds Sing
Rivers of Death
Indiscriminately from the Skies
- Mon Jul 23, 2012 2:59 pm
- Forum: Book Club
- Topic: Silent Spring – Book Club starts here on July 9th!
- Replies: 12
- Views: 53133
Re: Silent Spring – Book Club starts here on July 9th!
It's Week Three and the door has opened on Chapters Seven through Ten!
Week Three, July 23 - 29
Chapters 7 - 10
Needless Havoc
And No Birds Sing
Rivers of Death
Indiscriminately from the Skies
Week Three, July 23 - 29
Chapters 7 - 10
Needless Havoc
And No Birds Sing
Rivers of Death
Indiscriminately from the Skies
- Sun Jul 22, 2012 10:51 pm
- Forum: Book Club
- Topic: Silent Spring – Book Club starts here on July 9th!
- Replies: 12
- Views: 53133
- Fri Jul 20, 2012 12:07 pm
- Forum: Book Club
- Topic: Silent Spring – Book Club starts here on July 9th!
- Replies: 12
- Views: 53133
Re: Silent Spring – Book Club starts here on July 9th!
How's everyone doing with their reading this week? I finished Chapter Three last weekend but didn't make much progress durning the work week. Will kick it up a notch over the weekend. I'm finding Carson's writing readable but intense and have so far enjoyed the slow pace. How about you?
Re: Words
DavisChurches, you said, "I'm wondering how difficult it might have been in the early 60's to have an outsiders view of the propaganda machine that was in full swing back then ..."
Same here.
Same here.
Re: Words
Igmalu1, there's a new book out you may find interesting. (Perhaps you've already seen?) Breasts , by Florence Williams addresses some of the issues you brought up. I haven't read it yet, but Williams was interviewed, entertainingly, by Terry Gross on NPR's Fresh Air . Recommended. "Just What's...
- Tue Jul 17, 2012 10:08 pm
- Forum: Book Club
- Topic: Silent Spring – Chapter One: effective or manipulative?
- Replies: 10
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Re: Silent Spring – Chapter One: effective or manipulative?
For what it's worth, I see skepticism as healthy but cynicism deflates me. One of the things I've been wondering about this week is how movements get made.
- Tue Jul 17, 2012 9:56 pm
- Forum: Book Club
- Topic: Silent Spring – Chapter One: effective or manipulative?
- Replies: 10
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Re: Silent Spring – Chapter One: effective or manipulative?
Thanks for the beautiful posts. Suzanne, I bet I'd have felt exactly the same way had I read Silent Spring in '74. The world has changed much since then, wouldn't you say? DavisChurches, Beautiful image and thoughts. I, too, love "linger." Carson's writing is gorgeous and I'm warming to th...