Word: safes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Grimm brothers, is unprecedented. The work of collaborators separated by more than 150 years is irresistible. All three converge in Dear Mili (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $16.95), a long-lost Grimm tale in which a mother sends her child off to the forest as war approaches. Mili stumbles upon a safe house where she is sheltered by St. Joseph and her guardian angel. After three days the child is guided home, but in that time 30 years have passed. Mili is unchanged; her mother has dramatically aged. The conclusion is freighted with mystery, amplified by Sendak's floating vistas and romantic...
LEST we believe that a post-military era will be safe and relaxing, it should be noted that economic or technological dominance by a foreign power will as surely corrupt our culture and ideals as any invasion. Over the last two decades, we have been a helpless giant in Vietnam, in Lebanon, in Iran, in Nicaragua, in Panama. Our impotence has been manifest all over the world...
...final advantage: it would leave the Gulf Station untouched. This is as it should be, since the Gulf Station is not only an architectual masterpiece and historical landmark, but it's still one of the few parking lots in the Square, and therefore helps keep Harvard Yard safe from Al Vellucci...
...overcome such drawbacks, doctors at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago have developed a technique that promises to get safe blood quickly to a patient. It is a form of autologous transfusion but with an important difference. Most hospitals try to reclaim part of the blood lost by a patient during surgery. When faced with gaping wounds that ooze large quantities of blood into body cavities -- as in open-heart or orthopedic surgery -- surgeons can reclaim half of it with suction devices, cleanse it in purifying machines and send it back into the patient. The rest is lost because it either...
...only meaningful talisman remaining to him after his father's death, every detail of its history becomes sacred. He constantly tries to recreate the letter's origins, to determine whether his mother knew about its existence before he found her with it, and to trace its journey from the safe where it was first kept to the desk drawer where it was after his father's death. He says, "I did not see my mother actually find the letter. Come across it; locate it. I'm building backwards again." Toward the end of the novel, the boy has begun...