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Nearly halfway through this first novel the heroine makes a passing reference to Anna Karenina. Her remark is no accident, for she belongs to a family that is unhappy in ways Tolstoy would understand. Her father, Sheridan Shields, is a doctor who practices in a lush, remote area of Hawaii. He was one of the first Americans allowed into Hiroshima after the Bomb; he left the flattened city with an infant Japanese boy whom he had delivered and an incurable case of moral numbness. His wife Anna tells him that "what you saw there became your definition of suffering...
...undergarments. Other mothers do not forget that you go back to school in September ..." They also suspect that she will not be with them for long: "They stared at her raptly, adoringly, as if they were memorizing her." She does, in fact, leave suddenly and mysteriously. In her absence, Sheridan installs his girlfriend in the servants' quarters. Anna finally returns, bearing scars on her temples from a treatment that, she tells Lily, "didn't work." Anna's next departure is self-induced and permanent...
Philip Naff Fort Sheridan...
...developing a small surplus of chemical engineers, for example, who have been hurt by the Reagan Administration's lower priority for environmental regulations. Here and there throughout the profession, there are blotches of joblessness in the pool of 1.3 million American engineers. But overall, estimates Patrick Sheridan of the Engineering Manpower Commission, engineer unemployment is no more than 1%, vs. 9% for the work force as a whole. Joblessness in old industrial centers like Buffalo can go 12% and higher...
...Sheridan and some other employment experts in the field say that the engineer supply is about in balance with the demand. James McNeely, director of placement services at Virginia Polytechnic, believes that there is no general engineer shortage, just a narrow one in some of the specialties, including computer technology and robotics...