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...work before When She Was Good is clearly based on characteristics of his own life. For instance, he has spent much of his life teaching--and he often writes of academic life. He tends to be most concerned with people in their twenties and thirties. And certain themes recur in Roth's fiction--such as the way parents use children to try and solve their own problems...
...left of the Democrats. California had seen, in the '30's, a remarkable showing by Upton Sinclair in an insurgent bid for the Governorship. But in '48 Wallace got two per cent of the vote and was narrowly edged out by a Dixiecrat (a humiliation which could easily recur...
After 41 years of composing precise, graceful works, it is a wonder that the old Piston, now 73, has not worn down. "At my age," he admits, "ideas do recur, but when they do, you simply have to throw them...
...rate of at least 98%. Yet all skin cancer cannot be lightly dismissed. Each year it claims 80,000 new victims and causes 4,000 deaths in the U.S., largely because some forms are highly malignant and remain virtually incurable. To make matters worse, the easily curable forms sometimes recur in numbers, and if they are not removed, they, too, be come lethal. For patients who have many superficial skin cancers, in which surgery or radiation is impossible or would be too disfiguring, a New York researcher described a new chemical treatment last week that is as simple...
...erotic scenes recur with increasing intensity and without direction toward any well-defined, wholesome idea." As of now in California, declared the court, Chant d'Amour is "nothing more than hard-core pornography, and should be banned...