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IT USED to be that one had two options as a literary scholar: write the life history of an author, or sum up the meaning of her book. In either case, one's criticisms were considered marginal footnotes to the original works of "the canon."
Confusion at the level of theory has put no damper on the orgy of speculation about potential applications. Some ideas involve upgrading existing superconducting technology; others push marginal technology into the realm of the profitable; still others raise the prospect of entirely new uses of the phenomenon.
Neither were his children, whose flights from home are cause for empty-nest humor. There is, for example, the irony of a successful junk sculptor sourly contemplating the marginal occupations of his offspring: a daughter who molds clay "pinch pots" in California; another who edits a genealogy journal in Cincinnati...
Instead of viewing McDonald's jobs as a replacement for lost industrial work, other economists see the company serving a different but still valuable role as an employer of the marginal members of the work force: ghetto youths, undergrads working their way through college, displaced homemakers and retired people. What...
Unfortunately, American views of British art tend to echo the Chinese court scribe who is said to have remarked, in a letter to George III, that his Emperor was not unmindful of the "remoteness of your tiny barbarian island, cut off as it is from the world by so many...