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...abortion is strongest, they agreed, in the first three months. After that, when the fetus "quickens," said Psychiatrist John D.W. Pearce, the desire to be rid of the baby usually subsides. The G.P., he suggested, can often coax a woman through those first three months. Suicide threats pose a knottier problem. They cannot be ignored. Yet often the woman who voices them most vociferously is using them to lash out at those around her and is not likely to carry them out. The challenge to the psychiatrist is to judge when the threats are a reliable warning signal...
Experts agree that the parchment indeed dates from either just before or just after 700 A.D. Determining the age of the musical notations was a knottier task, since they could have been scratched in almost any time up to the 12th century, when that kind of notation went out of style. Infra-red and ultraviolet photography made the words and music assume about the same intensity, a fact that leads Schrade to believe that "at least the sub stance of the inks is basically the same," hence, that the neumes were written not long after the words...
...better." In reviewing nonfiction written by a specialist. Potter advises: "If all else fails [find] at least two arguably misplaced punctuation marks, then say . . . 'If, as we hope, there is to be a second edition, certain small errors and inconsistencies can be put right.'" Novels pose a knottier problem: "[It] may even entail actual reading of the first and last chapters...
...American corporate colossus. Great kings have lived and their names are writ in the folk memory of the world who had not a tenth of the power of many a U.S. corporation headed by a half-anonymous member of the country club. But the limits-they are knottier. The statists believe that the essential limitation on corporate power will be absorption by the Government of top corporate control. But Berle observes that the fascist and Communist efforts to swallow corporate power have not been successful in terms of economics, morals or politics...
...deliberately scants the poet's life. His book is the poorer for it, for in Robinson's case one of the clues to what he is driving at is knowledge of what he was driven by. When Critic Barnard is not busy unraveling the poet's knottier lines, he sees Robinson pretty much the way Robinson eventually saw himself: as an "idealist" in philosophy, a traditionalist in verse form, a liberal humanist in spirit...