Word: owners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Thomas McMahon choose less domineering figures to make his entrance into historical fiction. McKay himself, the owner of the bees, was a contemporary of this crowd, though not of the same public stature, in fact, very little has been written about him: he made a fortune in shoe-manufacturing, and the Pusey Library archives hold a slim volume on the gigantic endowments he left to Harvard. Though he arrives at his true life circumstances by the end of the novel, McKay first undertakes a long fictional journey to Kansas and back. McMahon has given him depth, complicated his life...
...slavery and stinging! In a beautiful landscape, among flowers and calm rural prospects, the beekeeper and his bees struggles with one another in loveless arrangements. Every day the bees fly thousands of miles in his service, and each one makes a drop of honey. He is their master, the owner of their product from the moment it is created. But there is no stability in this arrangement, because it is unnatural. They may decide in an instant to swarm away, or kill him with their stings, or both...
...afraid to think how much stuff disappears every single day," John Turattini, the owner of Schoenhof's Foreign Books, explained, adding, "now there is more shoplifting than ever, with the crowds of students back. It's when the students are here that we get more losses," he said...
...occasional classic series such as Shakespeare's plays or historic news events like the saturation coverage of the Pope's visit to the U.S. And there are those vintage films that seem fated to be televised at 2:30 a.m. A well-used machine can provide its owner with a whole library of spectacle and drama...
...carry him into the perfect world of the future, but when the police burst in, he steals the machine to escape. Convinced that he's "turned that bloody maniac loose on Utopia!," Wells follows the Ripper to 1979 San Francisco, the time machine having automatically returned to its owner...