Word: forme
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Perhaps after the Republicans get creamed in November and the moderate Democrats realize that Carter will never be able to keep his promises, the disillusioned from both sides will form a new middle-of-the-road party...
...remorseless doubles player once had a standard set of pregame excuses printed up on cards and handed them out to his weekend opposition in the form of a check-off list. Among his selections: Sunday-morning hangover; ill-strung racquet; soggy tennis balls...
...help Self 2 devote itself to tennis, Gallwey wisely offers practical exercises on how to relax and watch the ball. Among them: actually trying to see the ball's seams as it approaches; following its trajectory back and forth while imagining it is creating a huge linear, free-form painting in the air. Says he: "The ball should always be now." Gallwey was the captain of the Harvard tennis team (class of 1960). He later studied meditation with the Maharaji and traveled in India. Though he rejects the Self 1 Western view that your self-respect depends on winning...
...their success to a rapidly emerging science: immunology. Its practitioners devote themselves to the extremely complex task of finding ways of overcoming the body's natural defenses against foreign cells, so that transplanted tissue will not be rejected. Up to now, the usual tactic has been a form of biochemical overkill known as immunosuppression: the transplant patient is heavily dosed with drugs that interfere with the function of white blood cells-the major weapon of the immune system-and block the formation of antibodies. These are the wondrous proteins designed by nature to seek out invading cells, including transplant...
...enigmatic moral thriller. In bed with her lover, Sheila sounds just like the lapsed Catholic she is: "I am in grace. In my state of grace." But what drives her-at the peak of her new-found happiness-to contemplate suicide? She is also obsessed with a more mundane form of annihilation: "Those men you read about in newspaper stories who walk out of their homes saying they are going down to the corner to buy cigarettes and are never heard from again...