Word: fox
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...prodigy of prodigies may be Eugene Volokh, 14, of Los Angeles. A Russian emigre, he earns $480 each week by doing 24 hours of programming for 20th Century-Fox, while carrying a full load of courses as a junior at UCLA. This year Greg Christensen, 18, of Anaheim, Calif., could make $100,000 in royalties from a video game he developed that was bought by Atari. Other youngsters are waiting at the sidelines in hopes of catching up with these young entrepreneurs. Every Tuesday night, Scott Whitfield, 13, and his brother Shawn, 11, appear at the Menlo Park, Calif., public...
...just trying to get as much information as possible." John B. Fox '59, dean of the College, said yesterday, adding that the College would still try to make every effort to relocate classes not listed. But in a memorandum to disabled students. Thomas, E. Crooks, special assistant to the dean of the Faculty, wrote that "We anticipate very little flexibility in making changes in classroom assignments once the term has begun...
...Ridge-Slope Fox and the Knife Thrower" in both the book's best and most freewheeling essay. In it Hoagland seems more than anything else to meditate simply and carefully on the complexity of life. Again leaping from one topic to the next, he exults in his sightings of animals while wondering if he will catch a glimpse of the fox and then considers what an ordeal solitude actually is, despite its perverse and mostly pseudo-intellectual glamour. Then he considers the differences of life in the city and the country (it is not exactly that life is slow...
...never wanted this," Allie Fox says of the culture of obsolescence and indulgence. "I'm sick of everyone pretending to be Dan Deaves in his L.L. Bean Moccasins, and his Dubbelwares, and his Japanese Bucksaw--all these fake frontiersman with their chuckwagons full of Twinkies and Wonderbread and aerosol cheesespread. Get out the Duraflame log and the plastic cracker barrel, Dan, and let's talk of self-sufficiency...
...from the bestseller lists the story told in The Mosquito Coast, if not the explicit allegory, has quite an appeal to modern audiences. But if Theroux had really been interested in probing the soul of America, it would have been more revealing to explain how a character like Allie Fox managed to survive the ravages of an undisciplined society. To understand what's wrong with America. John Uplike's probably a better bet. His latest, Rabbit is Rich, stays within the society of inflation that Theroux can only deal with by escaping. It's a book about how real people...