Word: manna
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Elkin's Heaven? A celestial froth of every storybook cliché. It is a theme park of pearly gates, angels with harps, ambrosia, manna, a Heavenly choir that sings, "Oh dem golden slippers" and a St. Peter who answers a would-be club member's wonderment with a snobby "We like it." Peter is not entirely accurate. There are lonely child musicians whom God has untimely plucked because he likes a tune now and then. And there are tensions in the best of families...
School officials regard Impact Aid as manna. They can spend it on anything they want?books, teachers' pay, a new swimming pool?with a minimum of red tape and no federal inspections. The San Diego school district administers its $11.7 million in Impact Aid with one accountant and one clerk. Says Dave Fish, who supervises the funds in San Diego: "Out here people are worried about the property tax. If we didn't get this aid, we would have had to increase local taxes. And why shouldn't the Federal Government pay its rent...
...appear in the book, Sagan's is the most accessible to the non-scientist. Sagan uses basic physical and chemical theory to attack the ideas of repeated planetary collisions and of the involvement of a comet in the stopping of the earth's rotation (along with the falling of manna from Heaven). He concludes, "To rescue the hypothesis requires special pleading, the vague invention of new physics, and selective inattention to a plethora of conflicting evidence...
...income this year will not cover his expenses, he will have to scrape up more money. In January he said he had $325,000 in cash, but presumably he has had to dip into that. The Lances have already put up for sale their Atlanta mansion, named Butterfly Manna, at an unrealistic price of $2 million (purchase price...
With the pressure bearing down on him from all sides, Lance moved last week to ease the strain in at least one area-his precarious financial position. He put on the selling block his posh Northside Atlanta home, purchased in 1975 for $400,000 and fondly dubbed "Butterfly Manna" by LaBelle. Asking price: a neat $2 million. LaBelle said the intended sale "is just a sign we plan to be in Washington for a long, long time." In the capital, a great many signs were pointing in the other direction...