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...home, providing the values, discipline and security her children need, and let her hard-earned job skills go fallow? Or should she take a chance that her kids will be O.K. and pursue a life that brings more personal satisfaction and economic advantages? "It's very hard," says Stephanie Burchfield, a Los Angeles public-relations executive and mother of an 8-month-old. "I see her only an hour in the morning and an hour in the evening. I don't have a single friend who has worked full time who doesn't regret how little time she's spent...
...when the imperial sun finally did set after World War II, the American language followed American power into the vacuum. Key reason: the language has a rare forcefulness and flexibility. Even the authoritative Oxford English Dictionary last month incorporated such Americanisms as yuppie and zilch. Explained Editor Robert Burchfield: "Our language is changing slowly, and America is leading the way now, not Britain...
...Robert Burchfield, editor of the just completed (after 29 years) supplement to the Oxford English Dictionary: "When we reached zilch and zillionaire, it was like having the finishing tape in sight in a marathon...
FAILING TO BE OVERWHELMED by his education, White also missed the experience of a passionate romance. Though he paid attentions to a girl named Alice Burchfield, their relationship was troubled by poor timing and repeated misapprehensions. Shortly after graduation, while White was in a period of moving from job to job and of travelling across America, he proposed marriage to Alice; she turned him down. For a while they corresponded, as White worked his way across the country. As White was returning to the East Coast...
...buffalo looms from the canvas in all his massive black bulk, with the mythic menace of a dying Minotaur. Two linked tents frame a ceremony in a design as elegant as that on a Japanese screen. An Indian family flees from an approaching prairie fire whose stylized billows Charles Burchfield might have envied, across a field of endless prairie grass that Andrew Wyeth might have emulated. A Blackfoot chief stares at the viewer with the arrogance of long command-and the despair of one who knows his nation is doomed...