Word: nesting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...loose from cleverness. For the rest, there is a series of short stories about one of Updike's condescended-to suburban couples, called (smugly) the Maples. The first is very good indeed. It concerns Dick Maple's wobbly, not very creditable reactions when his wife escapes their nest by joining the civil rights movement...
Despair Saturday's ignominious debut of the pass defense. Restic is planning the changes for nest week. "We're playing the best people we have." Restie said. "We'll just have to work harder on the same things this week. "We'll have to be more aggressive...
...them breathe and with tubes coming out of their noses, mouths and other orifices. Some resent this depersonalizing dependence upon technology and remain depressed until they are returned to their rooms. By contrast, others fear being disconnected from the machines. "It's like being pushed out of the nest," said one patient. "You have...
...pity the robin that tries to pluck a worm from a plastic "lawn" or build a nest in a synthetic "juniper." I pity any living thing that tries to live in the James Cummings' artificial "garden" [Aug. 7]. But most of all, I pity the people who are so insensitive as to mock and defile nature by conjuring up a plastic landscape in one of the most beautiful areas of the world-the Pacific Northwest...
General Creighton Abrams' gift for making the best of nasty situations goes back at least as far as the World War II incident those lines recall, in which he outbluffed a nest of German army troopers. His record in four years as U.S. commander in Viet Nam indicates that he has not lost the talent. Now he faces a still tougher task. Nominated last week by President Nixon to succeed General William C. Westmoreland as Army Chief of Staff, Abrams, 57, must tackle the job of regenerating the Army in the wake of Viet Nam and, if Nixon...