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Basil Ransom remains equally taken with Verena. Beyond her fiery, teary feminist rhetoric, Ransom finds in her all he wants in a wife. While the girl is intrigued by the handsome stranger, and enjoys flirting as much as prosletyzing. Basil's intrusions into the idyll fill Olive--his distant cousin, it turns out--with morbid jealousy. The crossfire of affection, jealousy, and sheer emotional blackmail swirling around Verena intensifies, as Basil follows the women to the Vineyard, insistent that she allow him to replace Olive, the cause, and just about everything else in her life...
Astronomers have identified fiery quasars and the wispy shadows of supernova explosions at the very edges of the known universe. Yet the core of our own galaxy, the Milky Way, has long been an elusive stranger. Thick clouds of interstellar dust and gas absorb most of the light from the galaxy's central bulge long before it reaches planet earth, a small and distant suburb 30,000 light-years away from the Milky Way's midsection...
...Yugoslav sociologist while he was in Yugoslavia making a film. He married the woman. Tereza Campbell picks up the story today: "We were flying into L.A., me for the first time. Our song at that time was the one that went, 'Take my hand, I'm a stranger in paradise.' We were humming it, holding hands, and I looked down and saw all these beautiful blue spots. I asked Bill what they were, and he said, 'Swimming pools.' "I was impressed. In all Belgrade we only had two-and one belonged to Tito...
Fabius is no stranger to controversy. In March 1983 he was promoted from Budget Minister, a junior position in the French Cabinet, to head of the Ministry for Industry and Research. His impact was immediate: he began to redirect large government subsidies away from such loss-making nationalized industries as steel, shipbuilding and coal toward new high-technology enterprises. When the government announced plans to eliminate 25,000 of the 90,000 jobs in the steel industry by 1987, ugly riots erupted in Lorraine...
...ironic conclusion: Job's "tragedy was that of the happy ending." That sort of throwaway irony seems worthier of an Oscar Wilde epigram than a meditation on a profound theme. The Book of Job has haunted writings as disparate as Mark Twain's novel The Mysterious Stranger, Robert Frost's verse drama A Masque of Reason and Archibald MacLeish's play J.B. It requires more than bursts of wit and flashes of illumination...