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Knowledge of our displacement, knowledge of death--these are consciousness for McMichael, and what consciousness does is worry and plan, though it hungers like the wren to say "Here I am," to make a place out of sleep or to make "Pasadena" or a house like a nest, to make love. This is a long American poem remarkable in that it stays completely in the world of ordinary consciousness, of history and fact and daily life. It does not wander into myth, the dark of nature, or sexuality, fun as that might be to read. The passage about lovemaking...
Personal savings are no longer considered a secure nest egg. Inflation has wiped out much of the purchasing power of money in the bank, and most people cannot afford to save enough during their working lives to provide for their...
Harvard kicked a hornet's nest in early summer when it announced its intention to remove a large apartment building at 122 Mt. Auburn St. from the rental housing market. The move--which will require city approval--came in the midst of protracted legal battles over the building. Tenants fear that the planned evictions, to make way for large-scale renovations, will result in dramatic rent increases when they are allowed to move back...
...released with tiny radio transmitters clipped to the back of their wings, allowing biologists to track them and study their life cycle. Some condor protectionists objected. The birds, they argued, are extremely sensitive to human contact. A man standing 500 yds. away can keep a condor from its nest all day, and last year, when researchers attempted to weigh a two-month-old chick at its nesting site, the bird collapsed and died of shock and acute heart failure. Moreover, the California condor has yet to perform its mating ritual in a cage. Last month the state fish and game...
...ending. The saved-by-the-bell wedding ending recalls The Graduate, except this is unequivocably happy. The Graduate rejected the Establishment, Arthur embraces it. Ban and Elaine rode off in a public bus, Arthur and Linda scoot off in a chauffeur-driven Rolls, gleefully content with their $700 million nest...