Word: sagaing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Herbert, a former West Coast newspaperman, set the science-fiction world on its antenna in 1965 with the publication of Dune, an involved and resonant adventure saga of how human civilization was reborn in a desert. Set on the waterless planet of Arrakis, or Dune, the book introduced a hero whose ancestry went back to the legendary Greek House of Atreus. Paul Atreides had something for everyone. He was part Odysseus, part Jesus and part Muhammad. His followers were a desert people forced by circumstances into a mystical and practical awareness of their ecosystem...
...conservatively attractive--"fifty but still nifty," he claims humorously--and devoted to the pursuit of the Ideal Woman, chases a lushly likely prospect out of a train and into a deserted forest miles from civilization. Turns out, she is en route to a feminist convention--and thus begins the saga of Snaporaz, a hallucinogenic journey through an amusement park gone wrong...
...seduced by this temptation, but the remaining 400 pages bely this initial impression. The book's greatest strength lies in that Rashke is a rusader but he is not afraid of facts. Shunning the emotional, he explores in depth the allegations and evidence on all sides of the Silkwood saga. What emerges is a clear and well-documented case, which strongly suggests that Silkwood's death was not purely accidental, and that the cover-up involved not only Kerr-McGee and the AEC, but the FBI and perhaps even the Justice Department itself, Rashke does not draw a final conclusion...
...ECAC record (11-14)1 overall, 3-6-1 July), the Crimson's fourth straight losing season. Never in the history of Harvard hockey has Cambridge endured through four straight losing seasons. Never. The latest edition of the four-year saga included a ten-losses-in-11-starts streak, which ran from December 13th's 3-2 loss to Brown to January 31st's 3-2 loss to Clarkson. As a matter of fact, there were four 3-2 losses sprinkled among the ten, all of them at Bright Center. And the season ended with consecutive losses at Cornell, Vermont...
...avoid stirring up the old snakes by trying to revive the big city dailies. In short, lie low or they'll start laughing at us again. It's a fatal doctrine for a publishing company, but in its drift from impetuous pioneering to cautious money-grubbing, the Hearst saga is just a more vivid version of the history of most American business families...