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...will be right about one thing: The Second Stone is indeed a first novel. After that, heaven help the reader if he tries to play it straight. For The Second Stone is booby-trapped at every turn of the narrative with tricky bits from the complicated and ingenious philosophical apparatus of Leslie Fiedler, who is a critic, scholar and professor of English at Montana State University...
People in the Houses, generally don't pay much attention to sophomores. The House organization does the best it can, but most of its energies in the fall are spent getting seniors into graduate school. Furthermore, the apparatus of House advising is far less watchful than that of the Yard; "in the Houses," Dean Monro said, "it is usually some time before a student's academic troubles are realized...
...little spacecraft will have its own retrorocket to start its slanting down toward the atmosphere. Guidance apparatus will do most of the navigation and report to the passenger on the success of the perilous maneuver. Dr. Brodsky is confident that the plastic-faced wings can resist the heat of entry into the earth's air. As the paraglider gets deeper into the atmosphere, its speed will drop steadily. At last it will drift slowly near the earth, and the pilot, flying it like an old-fashioned glider, will be able to select a favorable spot on which to land...
...unseen attendant, "let'er roll!" With that, hundreds of apples came cascading down onto the whirling rollers from an opening in the wall. As they hit the machine they were bounced violently up and down and eventually were tossed into a receptacle at one end of the apparatus, much battered and bruised. Mr. Whiteside stopped the motor and again we could hear ourselves think. "That piece of machinery set us back twelve thousand," said Mr. Whiteside proudly, "but it can bruise 300 apples a minute." We whistled in astonishment at this efficiency...
Knowledge of this chemical feed-back mechanism may point to a new and extremely important type of genetic control of biological systems--the regulation of the synthesis of enzymes. The control apparatus can be compared to the operation of an automated factory in which the product-output is regulated in accordance with supply and demand...