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...INSPIRING PLEASURE in what is seen and heard, good fiction has always taught us how to watch and listen. Larry Woiwode's "Firstborn" is the final story in the volume--by alphabetical quirk--and it is a fitting finale. In portraying the emotional schooling of his hero, Cnaries, Worwode educates the reader as well, and provides a natural jumping off point for the stories and collections to come. The death of his first boy in childbirth has clouded Charles's outlook, but he endures in the face of grave trials and doubts, and his blind obdurance is rewarded just...
Howard E. Quirk Montclair...
...this could perhaps be dismissed as a climatological quirk, if it were not accompanied by other baffling events. On Christmas Island in the mid-Pacific, about 17 million sea birds have fled their ancient nesting grounds. Barracuda are unexpectedly appearing in the waters off Monterey, Calif. Marlin, red crabs, sea horses and other creatures usually found in warm Mexican waters are showing up as far north as San Francisco. High in the sky, westerly winds have been blowing so furiously toward the California coast that jets have cut their flying time from Hawaii by as much as an hour...
Robert J. Quirk, Mayor Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio...
...good, practical reasons by European nobility. In Rainier's case, the practicality was not hard to see. Rainier's Grimaldi clan dates its ascendancy in Monaco from 1297, when his ancestor François the Cunning sneaked into the palace disguised as a monk. By a quirk of French law, Monaco's citizens would lose their tax and military exemptions if Rainier failed to produce an heir to the throne. What Grace got, in addition to a title (Her Serene Highness), the run of a 200-room pink palace and perks to suit, was what her mother...