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Actually, there are two Fine Old Families amongst cicada aristocracy in the U.S.; Brood II was first noted in Connecticut in 1724, fourteen hatches ago; Brood X was first recorded in 1715. This explains why gardeners, who don't know about the broods, will be puzzled to find another visitation this year, when the last-they remember distinctly-was only nine years ago in 1953. That was Brood X. To complicate things further, there are Southern branches of the cicada family that appear every 13 years, and in some unfortunate areas, the 17-and the 13-year tribes overlap...
...temporal equations. His only hope, he says modestly, is that "it can be completed in our time." It was George Washington who suggested that a cathedral should be built in Washington to serve the nation's interest, but not until 100 years later did Congress consent to it. Fourteen years then passed before the cornerstone was laid and five more before the first services were held...
This is also a sign of Mr. Eisenberg's serene self-confidence. He has been a pupil of Pablo Casals for forty-two years ("I will always be his pupil") and in fact lived next door to Casals in Spain for fourteen years. But although he talks as if the fire of his inspiration were borrowed from his master, it would be hard to imagine a more creatively independent personality...
...Crimson's five man total of 813 was fourteen strokes better than that of runner-up Tufts. None of the remainder of the field, which included Boston University, Boston College, Brandeis, M.I.T., and Babson even came close...
...Hollywood could not handle. It will be shot this summer in Harlem and will explore juvenile delinquency in a way that people who found West Side Story a great movie might discover hard to take. Its mood is the oppressive apathy of Harlem; its hero is "Duke" Custis, a fourteen year old Negro boy, who has struck out to find his identity according to the only standards he has ever seen honored, as head of a street gang...