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...running title is matched by the pace of Lessing's production: three good-sized novels in the past 16 months. Shikasta (1979) tells of a primitive, beautiful planet called Rohanda, which is being jointly colonized by the two vast galactic empires of Canopus and Sirius. A misalignment of cosmic forces throws Rohanda awry; its developing inhabitants stop listening to their wise tutors and begin behaving suspiciously like members of the human race. The Canopean overseers sadly change the place's name to Shikasta, "the hurt, the damaged, the wounded one." In The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four...
...National Legal Aid and Defender Association. Firing the kind of probing questions that the Justices are sure to ask, the N.L.A.D.A. coaches blow holes in Cucinotta's platitudes. "Grand gestures about the adversary system," says one. "But I didn't hear your points. You were too cosmic." Cucinotta looks deflated. He has been awake since 2:30 a.m. thinking about his argument. "My head is spinning," he says...
Carl Sagan, by a long cosmic mile...
...actually constitutes a luxury (Voltaire holding that it is anything above a necessity), or a rare defense: "Give us the luxuries of life and we will dispense with its necessities" (John Lothrop Motley). Still, history's high livers have been accused of every imaginable sin: active, cardinal, political, cosmic, original...
...team co-captain Marc Chapus, who clicked into warp drive and came up with a new Harvard record of 48.5 seconds, the sprinters swept the event and left the Bruin contenders cleaning the cosmic dust out of their eyes. Sprinters Bennett Midlo and Kim Stevens arrived at the tape shortly after Chapus to claim the impressive times of 50.2 and 50.3 seconds, respectively...