Word: nesting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...surrounding 40 acres with Art. It is not a relationship an earthling can easily crash, and Joni concedes that she will probably never marry. "My family consists of pieces of work that go out in the world," she smiles. "Instead of hanging around for 19 years they leave the nest early...
...pagan tribal custom known as Yondo, a grueling initiation rite practiced by the Sara tribal groups of southern Chad. The ordeal -Tombalbaye himself underwent it as an adolescent-is known to involve floggings, facial scarring, mock burials, drugging, and ingeniously gruesome tests of stamina, like crawling naked through a nest of termites. Tribesmen who have been raised in the bush do not always survive the ritual, which suggested that it is even more difficult for urbanized Chadians to endure. When Tombalbaye decreed that high government officials, regardless of their religious beliefs, be among the first group of initiates, the Minister...
More likely, Shelley would have majored in Government and gone on to law school, and, instead of writing "Ode to the West Wind" would have spent most of his time poring over a casebook of contract law. And, doubtless, Widener Library has become the nest of many would-be-Shelleys, who, in earlier days, while not rhapsodizing necessarily on skylarks or writing odes to clouds, might have been less intent on getting accepted to med or business school...
...after so many years. I can think of only two others that date from the same period that are still read by people with enjoyment, rather than any courses they might have to read them for. The other two are Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle. I cannot think of any others. Pynchon readers, I think, come mostly from courses studying contemporary literature...
...laughter nor the expected snicker of superiority (what odd and frightful people!) follows. Blaise knows that his psychological theorizing is mostly cant, yet he does have a knack for helping his patients. His visits to sharp-tongued Emily's apartment are mixed blessings-it is a hate nest in which the girl spends a good deal of time demanding money to have her teeth fixed. Harriet at first seems too kind and innocent to live. But her unreflective goodness amounts almost to genius. When Blaise's second family comes to light and he begins to dash about with...