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...Devere is not ready to project that torment, and Christian fares no better. Nor has Director George C. Scott, Van Devere's husband, been able to elicit from the rest of the cast that sense of transcendence through suffering by which alone O'Neill's lesser texts can be salvaged...
Both sides tried to elicit expert testimony on this question from their respective medical authorities, but in the end it became clear that it was not a medical issue. doctors have no professional reason to define a moment of birth--a lexicographer would have as much "expert" authority. In his charge to the jury, McGuire ruled that the jurors must accept the traditional notion of birth as the "emergence of a new individual from inside the mother...
...sometimes elicit action by overstating-and overheating-an issue: Daniel R. Fitzpatrick's unsubtle smog-laden cartoons helped clean up St. Louis' air back in the 1950s. It can provide a graphic perspective on this or any other time: Thomas Nast's cartoon of the U.S. contending with inflation might have been inked yesterday instead of in 1876. And the cartoon can provide a time capsule for the historian. New York Times Columnist William V. Shannon offers a sound, if wistful, prophecy when he foresees that "a hundred years from now, Herblock will be read...
...whose reviews should run upside down. They are the volumes which mainly add up to a series of short answers-tomes like the Guinness Book of World Records or the Baseball Encyclopedia. Seven hundred twenty-three home runs; 895 miles below sea level-these are the replies such works elicit from the reader. The rest is merely a salaam to accuracy and arcana. Joining the shelf of unique reference books is another first: the first Book of Firsts by Patrick Robertson. A British civil servant, indefatigable researcher and humorist very much manque, Robertson has highly individual criteria for celebrity...
...figure on campus, attired in a black leather flying jacket and white parachute-silk scarf. Come January, Embry-Riddle is in for more surprises. Bach, whose most recent book is A Gift of Wings, will teach a 15-week two-credit seminar on "philosophy of flight." The curriculum should elicit gasps from commercial pilots and shudders from airline passengers. The students "will have to spend an evening some time between midnight and dawn alone with an airplane and see what happens." And if a cybernetic relationship is successfully established, "they're going to have to do nothing...