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...enjoy mutual love and affiliation without year-round conflicts over and desire for sex." Unlike men and women (and male dogs), who are highly promiscuous and make love more or less all the year round, wolves, both male and female, breed only once a year, though they have a longish courtship period when the male brings the female good things to eat, sticks to play with, and may, by bowing, invite her to puppylike play...
Currently I find myself involved in a longish epistolary novel, of which I know so far only that it will be regressively traditionalist in manner; it will not be obscure, difficult, or dense in the Modernist fashion...
...Nathan stretches to the far-fetched in his attempt to imagine real life. Several plot contrivances mar the novel. But its richness and vitality cannot be overstated. It reads quickly, much like a longish (180 pages) short story, and so stimulating a novel is hard to relinquish to the bookshelf. The Ghost Writer ends too soon...
Saturday evening. The students are straggling through the conference center to their dorms. One of the few with longish hair, Indian-born Sanjiv Kripalani of Torrance, Calif., sums up what is on the minds of many: "There is immense pressure on because of the $10.000 award. Everybody is feeling, 'I want it, I want it, I want it.' People are saying to themselves. 'Have I said too much or not enough? Have I lost my chance?' It's not worth it, selling your soul...
...trying to put together a magazine that can be both read and skimmed," says Gutwillig. Though the editors show a deft touch with short text blocks, few readers are going to be able to skim the three longish articles offered: a 5,400-word account by Syndicated Columnist Robert Novak of his November interview with China's Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-p'ing, as well as the two cover stories on Rockefeller and Hearst...