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Married. Taylor Caldwell, 71, best-selling novelist (This Side of Innocence, Great Lion of God); and William Everett Stancell, 72, retired real estate developer; she for the third time, he for the eighth; in Eggertsville...
...charges, many scientists agree that he has touched on an increasingly troublesome issue. In an era of big science, more often than not a major discovery is the work of many minds. Can the Nobel Committee properly single out one man-or even a few* -for the lion's share of the honors? The question is particularly pertinent for high-energy physics. In 1964, for example, it took no fewer than 33 scientists, operating the large Brookhaven atom smasher, to discover another fleeting bit of matter-the omega-minus particle...
...usual the substance of the book is Frederick Buechner's amiable conviction that the hound of heaven is a wet spaniel, apt to shake himself at any moment and shower a man with faith and grace. What is also unsettling, in this successful sequel to Buechner's Lion Country, is the considerable attention but negligible weight that this gifted and amusing writer gives to earthly matters...
...take his 17-year-old student Laura to bed. In fact there are no real dangers of any kind in Buechner's gentle world. Death, pain and anxiety exist, but are seen small; the hideous, wasting illness that kills Antonio's twin sister at the beginning of Lion Country is worth little more than a sad smile...
...civil rights movement, then joined a small New York law firm after graduation. She later worked for Mayor John Lindsay as his liaison to the city's parks, recreation and cultural affairs administration. Now Liz must likely face up to another bout next fall with the crafty old lion she has so severely wounded...