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...Strang's creative energies are lodged part and parcel with his strange psychosis, and its exorcism leaves him an empty shell, incapable of anything one-hundredth as passionate as before. This is the play's point, and it's not a new one and this isn't its most profound presentation. That madness may be better than sanity--who are we, who have never known true madness, to judge--goes back as far as you want to take it into Western thought. What Equus does is make it into good theater. Shaffer's play is propaganda for the Dionysiac element...
Shaky Ground. The Russians, led by Physicist Georgy N. Flerov, last June claimed a similar achievement using another technique: firing nuclei of chromium into lead. That produced a slightly different isotope of element 106 with an even shorter half-life of less than one-hundredth of a second. The Berkeley group was highly skeptical. Said Ghiorso: "The proof they presented is marginal. I think they are on shaky ground...
...lady's mumbling made me iware of her presence again ... The sun was making me drowsy, and I lapsed into the comfort of the past, telling the vieja for the hundredth time about my love, my life, my Frankie ... By some miracle I got pregnant that nite, and since I was only 14, his p.o. [parole officer] made him marry me. The other choice was to go back to Tracy. But he loves me! I know it, because I love him. He ain't around that broad no more! At the back of my eyes, the old, familiar...
...said that prisons should contain only those people who can't function in a free environment. That would leave only a hundredth of the present prison population, he said. "Too many busybody laws proscribing behavior clutter up the courts and the prisons," Brin continued...
Yntema dropped down to 11th in the consolation finals last night, but he lowered his own Harvard record to 50.57 in the process. His time was just one hundredth of a second slower than that of rival Bob Meade of Cornell, who beat Yntema in the event at the Easterns...