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...Lewis gave instructions by running an electric "pen" across a network of pulsating wires, the machine first changed the circle into a flower, and then transformed the flower into a butterfly...
...Maynard Keynes seems to have had any great influence on the course of events. It was "the worst, full of passionate intensity," who, as Woolf sees it, overwhelmed the rational world of the Apostles and Bloomsbury. "Catholics, Communists, Rosicrucians and Adventists"-Woolf herds all passionate believers into one nasty pen. He never seems to have asked himself whether it is rational to expect men to behave rationally. Must it be true that a believer is a barbarian? Surely the question is not the act of belief, but what is believed...
Like many of his generation, Nehemiah has made a determined effort to block out the past. Though his wife is German, he never speaks German unless forced to. More important, he has substituted a gun and a plow for the European Jew's book and pen...
...revolt began that 38 state policemen and an Army tank could not quell. It only ended when Ringleader Green's daughter pleaded with him to surrender; after extracting some promises of reforms, he did. Some promises were kept, but Green was on his way to Alcatraz, the federal pen for troublemakers...
Patricia Welles is the pen name of Marjorie Morningstar-well, not quite, but almost. It disguises Patricia Kanter-man of Detroit, who, divorced and 33, seems far removed from the hippie scene. Her leading character undoubtedly was an adolescent in the '50s who thought that the Tennessee Waltz was George and swooned over Johnnie Ray before the author updated her hangups to the '60s. Nothing mishugah about that: Babyhip has already earned $100,-000 in movie and paperback deals...