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...LEISURE reading Dunne claims to read very little contemporary fiction, although he enjoys studying the works of other authors to discern their techniques: "I read a lot of books." For pleasure, the Connecticut-based author re-reads Graham Greene and Evelyn Waugh: "But most specifically and definitely not Brideshead. It's a sumptuous bore. "However, he has nothing but praise for fellow fiction author John Updike and his latest, Rabbit is Rich...
...been through these valleys counsel outward calm to quiet with quiet, steady work. This Administration has not always been quiet or steady or calm, but it has not stumbled into irreversible catastrophe. Needed more than ever before are Congressman Jones' long view of history and the skill to discern how the acts of these hours will affect generations ahead. Two centuries ago, Germany's Friedrich von Schiller wrote an immutable law of events: "In today already walks tomorrow...
...direct challenge, making him doubt his own usefulness and weakening his will to live. Seated in his study and spreading jam made from turnips on bread made from substances whose origins he dares not guess, Jakob watches night descend and reminisces about a life spent in the struggle to discern the laws underlying the physical world...
Sabom could discern no religious or other differences between patients who had NDEs and those who did not. The two groups contained roughly equal numbers of atheists and frequent churchgoers, college grads and high school dropouts. Even prior awareness of the existence of near death experiences did not predispose patients to have them. Nor did race, occupation or sex, though, curiously, women who had NDEs were more likely to recall seeing their loved ones...
...seems creaky, partly because he was a pioneer. Modern sci-fi doomsdayers would never predict the end of the world from an excess of radio waves, or have radial-engine Curtiss Condor transports symbolize the overreach of the air age. Even so, White was always among the first to discern the now familiar signs and portents: ecological disturbances, the decline of various species, the discovery that last year's medical boons may lead to tomorrow's degenerative diseases, the horrors of a mindless but ubiquitous visual press, and the debilitating result of trying to achieve salable "smoothness...