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...particular, the surge of androgens and estrogens may cause the onset of estrus. To prevent this one should do two things: keep cool, and wear a hat at all times to prevent the sunlight from striking the pineal gland," he said...

Author: By Wyatt Emmerich, | Title: Unusually Warm Weather Upsets Students' Hormones | 2/11/1977 | See Source »

...Moog, Chamberlain and E.M.I. (don't even ask), Eno creates a work of majesty and spirituality. Medieval in feeling, with a bass drone borrowed from Russian liturgy, it is punctuated by Bowie's decent imitation of the sharp, nasal song style of Eastern Europe. You have the sense of sunlight glowing through the windows of a cathedral; gloomy, but at the same time gloriously transcendant and essentially redemptive...

Author: By J.t. Defenderfer, | Title: Is Aladdin Sane? | 2/2/1977 | See Source »

Their finding: the timing of each of the planet's major ice ages was closely related to changes in the earth's attitude and orbit that reduced the amount of summer sunlight striking the polar caps. Unless man somehow unbalances the equation, these scientists concluded, the trend over the next 20,000 years will be toward a cooler global climate and the spread of glaciers in the Northern Hemisphere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: FORECAST: UNSETTLED WEATHER AHEAD | 1/31/1977 | See Source »

More than any of his contemporaries, John Gardner has made being a novelist a hyphenated art. In The Sunlight Dialogues he did a brilliant turn as philosopher-novelist, debating issues of law and dissent while nimbly stage-managing a family melodrama in upstate New York. In his re-creations of myth, Grendel and Jason and Medeia, he played the novelist-as-epic-poet, perhaps a little consciously; but once again he revealed his consistent longing for Significance, for the Big Theme, for some dimension that extends beyond the modern novel into older, more classical forms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Making Ends Meet | 12/20/1976 | See Source »

...audience just why the play excited audiences who didn't know that musical performers weren't exclusively nocturnal creatures in evening clothes and taps. The conceivers of this Oklahoma! understand just how remarkable it was that a musical addressed itself to the heartland of a growing America, to sunlight, and to countrymen and women whose gerunds didn't always have a final...

Author: By Peter Kaplan, | Title: Waving Wheat Still Smells Sweet | 12/9/1976 | See Source »

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