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...dreamworld" [Nov. 20], but of a reality that I remember well. In my New England neighborhood the grandparents of my friends looked very much like those in his illustrations. There was no one with a camera handy when the boys (and girls) stole apples from a neighbor's orchard and said their grace before meals, or when my own doctor examined my doll for symptoms of asthma. Norman Rockwell's work has preserved those scenes from everyday life, and 300 years from now our descendants will know that apple trees grew in our neighbors' gardens, our elderly...
Neglected Lives even has a point to it. The title refers to all of the characters and their sadly solitary lives--each one is enveloped in a cocoon of lonliness, from the crazed general who spends his days shooting monkeys who make forays into his orchard to the old hermit having the life sucked out of him in a house infested with leeches. The characters trapped in the jungle village dream of escape from their solitude, but the city-dwellers are no better...
This activity is part of the explosive growth of the microelectronics industry, which since 1963 has transformed Santa Clara County, whose heart is Silicon Valley, from a bucolic orchard to a crazy quilt of low-slung buildings and endless seams of freeway. Electronics sales are rising 14% annually and will reach an expected $66 billion this year; 10% of the total volume comes from Silicon Valley. Partly because of a post-Viet Nam decline in trained electronics workers coming out of the military, the valley's personnel officers are searching to fill an estimated 5,000 openings...
...world turns out to be the audience. Self-pity is one of the most powerful weapons in Chekhov's dramatic arsenal, but it only elicits sympathy for his characters because he engages the audience in personal self-pity. The playgoer is not necessarily devastated when the cherry orchard is sold at the auction block or by news that the three sisters never get to Moscow. But it is a rare playgoer who has no nagging, nettling memory of property or money lost, or of a move not made...
...that was made famous by Naturalist Henry Beston's 1928 bestseller The Outermost House. The surf in Rockport, Mass., demolished a red fishing shack known as "Motif No. 1," a favorite subject for local artists. In Maine, the losses included three lighthouses and the amusement pier at Old Orchard Beach, where Louis Armstrong and Benny Goodman once played...