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Since his death, his wife and two other editors have tried to piece together bits of the large bulk of unfinished work, in remotely intelligible form. The results, painfully slow in coming, have been enough to nourish the cultists, but insufficient to excite the doubters. At any event, nothing has come out to suggest that Under the Volcano would ever have been displaced as Lowry's major work...
...much money is involved that it seems to nourish corruption. There are adjusters who take bribes to settle cases, plaintiffs who file inflated claims, witnesses who remember the unrememberable, doctors who commit perjury, and lawyers who squander their talents working for contingent fees (30% of what they win for their clients), which now provide roughly one-third of the U.S. bar's total income...
...long been divided into two camps. There are those who want to know how the complex machines that are so much a part of their lives really work; and there are those who couldn't care less, as long as the machines somehow keep functioning. For those who nourish any technical curiosity at all-if only because they would like to respond with a semblance of intelligence to their children's questions-this lucid book provides a thorough collection of answers...
...Bill McCurdy just happens to have an outstanding Harvard or Yale performer in every event, save the high jump. There Yale's Al Evans and Randy Ralls might try to better their own personal marks of 6 ft. 6 in., but it would be blatantly egotistical for them to nourish the faintest hopes of defeating Oxford's Chris Pardee, the same lanky fellow who jumped 7 ft. as a Harvard senior last year...
What is more, they have the muscle to make the play work. With vitamin pills a staple on his breakfast table, and a well-balanced diet to nourish him all through his youth, the average U.S. college freshman of the '60s is half an inch taller than his father, and still growing. It is no surprise, says Vince Lombardi, coach of the pro champion Green Bay Packers, that "today's football player is bigger, faster and sharper mentally." Today's baseball player is bigger too. In almost every sport, the good big man is displacing the good...