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...first came with the completion of her first novel, The Voyage Out, about a love-struck girl who dies of an irrelevant fever. She had "an almost pathological hypersensitivity to criticism, so that she suffered an ever increasingly agonizing nervous apprehension as she got nearer to the end of her book and the throwing of it and of herself to the critics." As the publication date approached, nervous apprehension became plain madness. She raved. She heard voices. She might literally have starved herself to death had Woolf not been with her at the time. "Every meal took an hour...
...home-heating and cooking, provided cheaper industrial power and, less happily, caused severe wrenches in existing coal and oil industries. Twenty-four million U.S. homes-twice as many as a decade ago-now heat with pipelined natural gas. Because of the pipelines, oil companies now locate their refineries nearer the oilfields and ship refined products at lower cost instead of building plants near markets...
COFO had wanted to maintain a 5-1 student-teacher ratio, Whaman said, but so many Negroes have enrolled that the ratio is nearer 10-1. There are 200 teachers for the 1900 pupils in the state...
...York is 2,451 miles from Los Angeles, and that's about 2,451 miles too far. But thank you for bringing the fair a little nearer...
Best Bargain. The most fascinating effect of these scenes was a matter of chronology, as the program reached back across the nearer distance of Ike's genial presidency to show a man slightly but substantially different, reliving his somewhat presidential generalcy in command of the corporate war. Against the background of the vast invasion, with organization reaching to the horizons, his special colloquial touch stood out retrospectively as the small force that brought the great ones to human terms and made the whole huge enterprise go so well...