Word: halfe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...QUICK AND THE DEAD, by Thomas Wiseman. In this skilled, unsettling novel, a European half-Jew, haunted by decidedly unorthodox memories of a youthful acquaintance who turned Nazi, probes the past to learn why, even in death, this adversary-friend still manages to dominate his life...
...water, less than in a large lake on earth. Spread over the planet's surface, it would be only a thousandth of an inch deep. There was about twice as much water vapor in the Northern Hemisphere (where it is now late summer) than in the southern half (where it is late winter). This suggests that the excess vapor in the north came from the melting...
...clock struck slowly half-past-noon...
Death Throes. To a pounding, throbbing cacophony of percussion and the shrill tooting of a wooden flute, dancers in extravagant costumes celebrate legendary rituals, their stiff-legged gyrations seeming, like some ancient idol, only half alive. Dancer Jorge Tyller, a Yaqui Indian, reenacts with awesome control the death throes of a shot deer, his tortured posturings bringing to mind some kind of primitive sacrifice as seen by the victim...
Long-term capital gains, which cost as much as $8.5 billion a year, constitute the biggest loophole. Profits from stocks, bonds or other investments held for more than six months are taxed at only one-half the rate on ordinary income, and no more than 27½% in any case. Defenders of capital gains have a compelling argument: people must be encouraged to take risks with capital if a private economy is to thrive. On the other hand, many experts agree with Economist Joseph Pechman of the Brookings Institution, who holds that the present ceiling is too low. To discourage...