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...didn't say anything to my wife, and a couple of weeks later, I heard a scream from my wife. She was down in the basement pointing to some newborn little cockroaches." Roth shakes his head. "That was the last experiment I did at home...
THERE is a Chinese story by Lu Hsun about a philosopher who is telling a parable to his acolyte. Three men are admiring their neighbor's newborn son. The first man complimented the boy, saying "One day, this boy will be rich." The second said, "One day, this boy will be a high official." The third, a bit more realistic, said "One day, this boy will die," whereupon the others beat him senseless...
...steeped in sadness, it is equally rich in humor and wonder at the everyday joys of living, from the umpteenth retelling of a beloved family anecdote to a mock- scandalized peek through the window at the neighbors, from the swing of a baseball bat to the cradling of a newborn child. Like the blues music he threads through them, his plays transcend ethnicity. Playgoers of any race who come as emotional tourists depart realizing they have seen themselves reflected onstage...
...white wall above the heads of these people were as bare as a baby's newborn behind. No nativity scenes. No crosses hung outward from the wall at an angle. And no clocks. Thompson was notorious for his disregard for time, which may or may not have something to do with his declining congregation in recent years. He had the queer belief that the Lord's word was too large to be contained between a regular amount of time each week, and Thompson was once moved enough to speak on Mark 1: 6-7 for an hour-and-three-quarters...
...many ways, America is not yet ready for a vast social change that came upon it rather suddenly. "It used to be," says Ken Dychtwald, a young, blunt-spoken gerontologist in Emeryville, Calif., "that people didn't age. They died." When the Republic was founded, a newborn child could expect to reach 35. Today Americans could well live into their 90s -- and live well too. In 1950 people 65 and over made up just 7.7% of the population. Now the number is up to 12%, and it will reach 17.3% by 2020. Fastest growing of all is the group...