Word: gerarde
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...year 2050, the earth may be dangerously overpopulated and polluted. Even so, says a Princeton University scientist, there might be a way out for some of the world's teeming billions. By that time, according to Physicist Gerard K. O'Neill, streams of earthlings could well be en route to comfortable new homes in space...
...heavy-handed onslaught of forced alliteration is the most obvious flaw. The result would be laughable if she were attempting a parody of Gerard Manley Hopkins--but she's not. She's perfectly serious...
...latest offering, Napoleon Symphony, the author, who is also a serious composer, has reached for everything from kazoos to pipe organs. The result is a mock epic about the career of Napoleon Bonaparte that sometimes reads like Dickens, sometimes like Tennyson and Wordsworth, with an occasional gash of Gerard Manley Hopkins' gold-vermilion. "The last section of the book is written in the style of Henry James," Burgess explains without a trace of solemnity, "because Henry James believed he was Napoleon when he was dying...
...tendency of prison administrators to see behavior mod as primarily a tool for maintaining order behind the walls. In many cases, says Illinois Legal Aid Lawyer Michael Deutsch, "the prisons take the programs over from doctors because it's a way of segregating the troublemakers." Roy Gerard, an assistant director of the U.S. Bureau of Prisons, says flatly: "That's part of the consequence of committing a crime. You've automatically volunteered for the certain way an institution...
...Beach's short life, even better than his high school graduation, since he would not have to make a speech this time around. Graduation has the reputation for being a pretty good party, and since it was the end (appropriately called Commencement), it had to be pretty good. Also, Gerard Piel, in Scientific American had called it the most stirring ceremonial occasion this side of the coronation of an English monarch. So maybe there was something in it. Certainly there was something after it. The future...