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...with an agoraphobic library assistant, Tissy, a delicate, nervous creature whom he hopes to nurse to a normal life. Abetted by her mother, a "Messalina of the suburbs," Tissy turns out to harbor the tyrannical selfishness of the very weak. Their marriage is a fiasco. Lewis falls under the spell of Emmy, a passionate and extraverted actress who is the opposite of his wife in every way except relentless self-absorption. Although he resists Emmy's advances, his wife leaves him anyway. He drifts passively through decades of wistful misery, unable to attain pleasure or please others; even his housekeeper...
Proofread the thesis. This is surely the most cumbersome of duties. If the thesis is well written, proof reading can be an issue of spell-checking and some sentence structure correction...
...staggering under debt. Last week the prices of junk bonds, some of which had lost as much as half their face value in recent months, rebounded as investment firms bought them up to reassure the marketplace about their stability. But in the long run, the overleveraging of America could spell trouble if the country plunges into a recession and profits tumble, leaving companies unable to meet their interest payments...
...Channel Islands out there and the other way the Santa Ynez valley. In the hot summer you can ride in those oak trees and stay cool; comes the winter you can pick the paths that stay in the sunlight. It is so beautiful, the place casts a spell. I love that life...
...democratic process by giving up all legal and political advantages." The * Communists, he said, recognized that alternative parties might develop and were prepared to cooperate and conduct dialogue "with all organizations committed to the Soviet constitution and the social system endorsed in this constitution." But the statement did not spell out what the Kremlin's attitude would be toward political groups that do not support a socialist system...