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Hughey--apparently giving up on her stick--attempted to nest over the sliding puck. But it wormed under her legs and into the cage...
...theory seems at first to be blatantly obvious. It holds that people tend to save when they are young to create a nest egg for their old age. Basic though it may be, that notion ranks among the most powerful and widely used concepts in modern economics. It was also the work for which M.I.T.'s Franco Modigliani, 67, the theory's principal author, was named the 1985 Nobel laureate in economic science. "With many people, the Nobel Prize is a question of if," said Paul Samuelson, an M.I.T. colleague and the 1970 economics laureate. "With Franco, it was only...
...acid diethylamide was entirely legal in California until October 1966, and the mind-expanding drug made popular in these parts by ex-Prof. Timothy Leary fueled the "Hashberry" from start to finish. Publicly-advertised acid tests--group tripping experiences organized by novelist Ken ("One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest") Kesey and his Merry Pranksters--spread the wonder drug from the province of a few enlightened intellectuals to the grasp of any who wanted to know...
When Sarah, Macon Leary's wife of twenty years, runs out of the house leaving her wedding rings in the soapdish, Macon's first instinct is to return to the childhood nest, the domestic asylum where his three sisters, all doomed for spinsterhood, still live. The tragedy which initiates their estrangement--the freak murder of the Leary's twelve year-old son, Ethan, that occurs while he is away at camp--lays bare the stasis their marriage has reached. When Sarah openly seeks comfort in her grief, Macon's only solace is the reminder that he, with his usual caution...
...technical virtuosity who used surreal fables and phantasmagorical science fiction to express thoroughly modern, realistic observations on human absurdity; of complications following a stroke; in Siena, Italy. A Resistance fighter during World War II, he drew on his partisan experiences in early, realistic works like The Path to the Nest of Spiders (1947), but turned more and more to fantasy in such books as The Baron in the Trees (1957), Invisible Cities (1973), The Castle of Crossed Destinies (1974) and If on a Winter Night a Traveler (1979). One of his best-known works is a rich collection, Italian Folktales...