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...events help us to place ourselves in the continuum of American history so much as the assassination, almost a quarter-century ago, of President John F. Kennedy '40. A dividing line between prosperity, tranquility and peace on the one side, and Vietnam, inflation and internal unrest on the other, Camelot's violent ending marks the time when the American Century suddenly lost its innocence and optimism...
...have begun to look to biology for answers to social and philosophical questions. This trust may be justified, but current popular biology books range from the enlightening and profound to the misleading and shallow. Rupert Sheldrake's The Presence of the Past falls near the latter end of this continuum...
Observes Marilyn Chrisman, president of Nova Health Services, the nonprofit company that runs the unusual joint operation: "There was a big need for a continuum of services and greater support" for the women. Instead of paying an average fee of $200 for an abortion, the women who choose the adoption service carry their children to term and the clinic pays their medical expenses...
...happily subjects himself to a "continuum of nuttiness." He finds work at a tent factory ("I felt fine, a fine idiot doing a fine idiot job") and begins frequenting Bilbo's Bar, Gym & Grill, sparring occasionally, drinking a lot and hanging out with folks "who are anything but custodians of their chances in life." The first hint that all this aimlessness may be leading him somewhere comes when he moves in with Mary Constance Baker, an older woman, amateur actress and local celebrity, best known for her starring role in a play called A Woman Named Drown. In fact, this...
From this continuum one can separate out three groups--a basic literacy group who either cannot read at all or can read only the simplest signs and labels (about 1 million); a group who are often classified as functionally literate; they can read simple materials--but only at an elementary school level (about 25 million); and a group who are able to read elementary level materials, but who cannot cope with the more complex materials of an information high-tech society (about 50 million...