Word: curious
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Massachusetts does not appear to be among the contenders at this time, according to Harvard's Glashow, a Nobel Prize laureate in physics. He said the lack of response in New England is "very curious because there are certainly places where you could...
...have here in America a curious situation: we spend more on health care than other industrial nations, yet a larger percentage of our citizenry is without financial protection. At the same time we are told there is a surplus of physicians and hospital beds, millions of Americans lack assess to health care. Just as we have people going hungry in a land that could grow more food, so we have people who get sick unable to enter a system that could help them. We are far, and getting further, from equity of access...
...flowing robes and shaved heads, only those who actually live in the temple. Street clothes, a job at K-mart, and other drably normal characteristics are no impediment to being a full blown Vaishnava. It was difficult to distinguish in the crowd active worshippers from the merely hungry or curious...
Burgess's story matters because he survived to become one of England's most important postwar novelists. It entertains because it is crammed with odd, intriguing information: recipes for old-fashioned Lancashire dishes, Malayan expressions for a variety of sexual acts, the crotchety digressions of an inexhaustibly curious mind. "I suppose," Burgess writes, "that a novelist who produces an autobiography has a right to expect that most of its readers will also be readers of his fiction." In this case, he is wrong. People who have never heard of Anthony Burgess, much less John Burgess Wilson, can easily find this...
...Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys is a lively compromise, although it is curious how Goodwin can discuss John F.'s political career without mentioning Theodore Sorensen, an early Kennedy ghostwriter who gave the rising star his literary twinkle. She writes best about the Fitzgeralds, their immigration to Boston and rise from poverty, first as grocers and saloonkeepers and then as politicians and power brokers. The most famous was John Francis Fitzgerald, the newspaperboy who went on to make headlines as "Honey Fitz," the roguish mayor of Boston...