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...which a dinner party guest holds his fellow guests and hosts at gunpoint for much of the evening, but talks them to death first. The talk is cosmic-broody and Manhattan cocktail-party modern, which may be a redundancy. As with an onion, the peeling away of each layer of speechifying in Drinks Before Dinner leaves less and less to behold...
...SPECULATION about Jonestown will continue for some months to come, but no answers will be found, no sweeping conclusions reached. In many respects there is nothing more to say. But as long as the image of 900 bodies, piled layer upon layer on the damp ground, persists in our consciousness, there can be no forgetting Jonestown. And while the direct responsibility for all those needless deaths lies with the madman Jim Jones, most everyone will be able to duck the broader responsibility which indicts our entire society for spawning such a monster. By now Jim Jones's ashes have been...
...hundred years I shouldn't import. I can make it here.' It's a sort of conditioned reflex." Says Norman Glick, a member of the U.S. Commerce Department's trade facilitation committee: "The Japanese have protection in depth. As soon as you peel away one layer, you find another...
...create what in effect is an electron freeway without these obstructing potholes, Bell Physicist Raymond Dingle and his colleagues built a semiconductor made of extremely thin, alternate layers of aluminum gallium arsenide (which they doped) and gallium arsenide (which they left pure). They reasoned that any electrons donated by the impurity would tend to migrate to the adjoining undoped gallium arsenide layer because of their tendency to seek what physicists call a lower energy state. Explains the Australian-born Dingle: "It's rather like the inclination of water to flow downhill." The new design worked. Isolated from the obstructing...
Most middle-level Americans divide that whole in three parts: the rich, the poor and "the rest of us." Coleman and Rainwater prefer a seven-layer view. From the top: the old rich of aristocratic family name; the new rich, or success elite; the college-educated professional and managerial class; Middle Americans of comfortable living standard; Middle Americans just getting along; a lower class who are poor but working; and a non-working welfare class...