Word: fixedness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Anna Graham, this novel's sardonic narrator, wants nothing more than to be an actress, but is worried that her personality is too overpowering. So she sets about to obliterate it. Her efforts are soon joined by Damon Wetly, a scientist who magnanimously kidnaps Anna, reasoning that by breaking her...
Until recently those titles, whether classics or current best sellers, have been available mainly in loan libraries. Vernon Ellickson, 83, is a typical large-type reader. A retired farmer with macular degeneration, Ellickson goes to the library in Decorah, Iowa, twice a week to pick out his favorite westerns and...
Today mortgage money is easy to find. A 30-year fixed-rate jumbo goes for about 7.08%--not that much more than the smaller "conforming" loan at 6.9%. Last October, though, jumbo borrowers had to pony up an average 7.22% when nonjumbo borrowers were paying only 6.76%, a punishing difference...
"People perceive women as a fixed energy system," Conway said. "They don't expect women to change and grow positively."
Then he rereads the entire paragraph, which gives one chills, partly for Darwin's understatement. What the author deemed "interesting to contemplate" was nothing less than the world's biological structure, which he (and others) had discovered, and which now, at the end of his monumental study, he quietly celebrated...