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...Jacobs, summoning up a scene from his days at the Indian Medical Center in Gallup, New Mexico. "She'd be accompanied by the grandmother in traditional hoop skirt, who kept silent." After examining the child, Jacobs would offer his prescription for soothing inflamed nasal passages: boil some sage leaves in water and have the youngster inhale the aromatic fumes. "When she'd hear that, the young mother invariably would give the grandmother a sheepish smile. It was just what the older woman had been urging her to do, and they'd been arguing about...
...POLITICAL INTEREST: A Sage Spurned...
...Sage advice for a stupid policy. Perhaps the next sentence should read: "Avoid stepping in front of oncoming trains...
...presence. They can also seem unbendingly solemn. "I like to think I have a merry side," he says, almost wistfully, and in conversation he certainly talks often of "fun," his sonorous voice rolling up and down with command and theatricality, now mimicking a genteel old lady, now a Taoist sage. "I've never in my life -- or hardly ever -- laughed so loud as during the creation of my fiction," he says, while acknowledging that his humor may be too laconic for some tastes. At the same time, he remains unflinchingly serious in his determination to speak for those who cannot...
Michael Kornick, Four Seasons Hotel, Boston. Soup of cepes (mushrooms) Roast Wild Duck served with fresh huckleberry stuffing with chestnuts, local apples, sage Beets Shallots Salad with marinated brussel sprouts and endive Small apple and pear turnovers...