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ALAN SEVERANCE, whose name, through some pedantic trickery of language means "Harmony Interbreaker," is the protagonist/antagonist. He embodies Berryman's own tremendous ego and frightful delusions. Outwardly self-contained, he helps the hopeless alcoholics in his ward by dominating group therapy and confronting their inadequacies. But he rarely reaches into himself; he is blind to his own shortcomings. He is something of a Cain-figure, lost in a psychological maze of anger and nurtured rejection. Severance, a Pulitzer Prize winning scientist, art critic, and pop intellectual, feels that his status as a celebrity is the source of his troubles. Here...
...debris. One of the divers then tried to swim to the sub, but he could not make headway against the 2½-knot current. Hindered by debris and problems with its sonar gear, a little submersible called a Cubmarine had no better luck. Just as the situation seemed hopeless, the research ship A.B. Wood arrived, equipped with a remote-controlled underwater television camera. Using the camera to guide a grappling hook, the Wood managed to snare Sea-Link; a single tug freed the sub, which rose immediately to the surface...
When the Justices of the Supreme Court sat down to consider their current harvest of pornography cases, they found themselves in rare and unanimous agreement on one point: the procedures then in effect for handling the problem were a hopeless failure. Thus they concluded that the entire legal definition of obscenity had to be reexamined. Justice William Brennan, chief architect of the court's gradual course toward liberalization, argued urgently that virtually all pornography bans should be scrapped as constitutionally unworkable. With no less force, Chief Justice Warren Burger spoke in favor of stricter standards, "more concrete than those...
...keep him from drifting out into space) and attempted to pull the jammed panel loose with a long-handled tool resembling a boat hook. The panel would not budge. After an hour of pushing, shoving and tugging-interspersed with streams of obscenities clearly audible to millions-the task seemed hopeless. "I hate to say it," said the exasperated Weitz, "but we ain't going to do it with the tools...
...rack, along with those becoming dresses from a boutique called Jolie Madame, are much consolation: "Marriage is a compromise." "A lot of time, a lot of pain, went into learning very little." The possible reactions to much of what is going on in the world today are a rather hopeless twosome: "We ought to do something about it" or "Oh Woe, Alas...