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Only one major roadblock has prevented Detroit's auto engineers from turning their nostalgic dreams of an electric car into a practical scheme: lack of a battery with the capacity and durability to power a modern automo bile. Now that obstacle may have been removed. Ford Motor Co. scientists have demonstrated a miniature version of a new battery that promises to put the company in the electric-car business within the next ten years...
ARIEL, by Sylvia Plath. Suicide ended the promising career of Poet Sylvia Plath in 1963. In these poems written during her last months, she dipped her pen in old wounds and secret bile and scribbled a volume of violent verse that constitutes a major contribution to the poetry of abreaction...
...days, Dr. Phillips plied the child with weird substances, including massive doses of desiccated ox bile and extract of beef eye. Four months later, Linda was dead of cancer. When Dr. Phillips submitted a bill for $739, the Eppings charged him with grand theft by false pretenses. Appalled at what he viewed as the first recorded "murder by words," the prosecutor switched the grand-theft charge to murder on the ground that Phillips caused a death while committing a felony (defrauding the Eppings). After a three-week trial, the jury convicted the doctor of second-degree murder...
That was rude enough, but Bly was not the only one with some bile to cough up. A surprising number of the 22 participating editors and former editors thought there was much awry with the proliferating little literary enterprises. Said one of the symposium contributors, William Mathes: "There must be some worth mentioning. I just haven't been able to think of any." One of the problems seemed to be an inevitable conformity. Said Jack Garlington of Western Humanities Review: "The fact that most of us belong to the same class -we're eggheads, whether we admit...
...dossier of sins he has committed, or, in the case of a homosexual, of a deviate impulse he may have suppressed. It is not surprising that his self-disgust and self-hatred prove contagious, and hat in the end everyone leaves him to stew in his own bile...