Word: minding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Instead of a revelation, a change in character, or the resolution of a difficulty, Libra has at its center the chill that rises in the back of your mind when you see that the rays of paranoia are approaching, and you know that they are going to converge. It is a different sort of excitement, and it is not meant to give the reader a nice warm feeling...
...Nora's biography essential for Joycean scholars to understand what was going on inside Joyce's mind when he was writing his masterpiece? Will it inspire in Joyce's admirers a desire to go back and re-read all of his works and give them new meaning? In the words of Nora and Molly...
Bruce Allen Murphy in his gripping biography of this ultimate insider, practitioner and brilliant legal mind attempts to understand how Abe Fortas met such a disastrous finale. The rising young star of the Warren Court and the man groomed to lead liberalism after the great chief justice had retired would suffer a resounding defeat before the Senate during his confirmation hearings on his promotion to the top position in the Court...
CHILDHOOD: THE DELECTABLE LAND. Like Cardiff Hill, it lies just far enough away from the adult mind to be dreamy, to shimmer with a sentimental abstraction -- if one does not recall it too precisely. Childhood, where everyone begins, has the power of myth. Big people are gods, and the world is magic -- or terrifying...
...etat. But Marcos' successor, Corazon Aquino, has blocked all his maneuvers to return home. So Marcos, 70, is trying a new tactic. According to intermediaries, he has offered to turn over $5 billion, enough to pay nearly 20% of the country's foreign debt, if Aquino will change her mind. Although she reportedly rejected the proposed deal, Aquino at one point challenged Marcos: "Send the $5 billion, and then we will talk...