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Eliot had four of the first ten finishers but did not have sufficient depth to beat Quincy, which won, 202-238. Mather finished a distant third with Leverett, Adams, Lowell, Winthrop, Dunster, Kirkland, and Dudley trailing...
Unusual preoccupation with the motorcycle. "When the patient is not actually riding a motorcycle, he tends to daydream continuously of doing so. The mere sound of a distant motorcycle stimulates vivid fantasies...
...distant, conflict-ridden relationship with the father and a strong identification with the mother. "Each patient within my sample feared his father and as a young boy learned to avoid...
...Laguna Mountains, the flames were barely visible at first. Franklin Greene, 59, a court reporter who lives in a hillside house near the town of Jamul, east of San Diego, watched the distant flickerings with little concern, then took some relatives out to dinner. Just before 6 the next morning, a group of hippies from a commune farther down the mountain roused Greene and warned him to flee...
What makes Horgan's book unmistakably his own is the quiet thoughtfulness of his words. His gift for precise and unobtrusive prose has sustained him through eleven other novels (notably Everything to Live For and A Distant Trumpet). It has allowed the literary world to discover and then mislay him regularly during nearly 40 years of brisk activity...