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...Siberia, USSR Trees Read Aldous Huxley on peyote tripping. Three meals: bread and cheese, fried eggs, cucumber, chicken soup, borscht. Read 541-page novel with jacket review, "...a man's world, where hate can swell like biceps and frontiers beckon as seductively as a woman." Play "hearts" on blanket between top bunks...
...business of the language (like taxi and cello and hi) or, more likely, slips off into oblivion, dead as Oscan and Manx. The evening news should probably broadcast brief obituaries of slang words that have passed on. The practice would prevent people from embarrassing themselves by saying things like swell or super. "Groovy, descendant of cool and hip, vanished from the language today...
...think most people outside the community know what's going on here," says Min whose pressing concern is with the number of immigrants from southeast Asia who reach Boston in great number and great need. Chinatown has 3500 registered citizens, and Min says the neighborhood continues to swell with newcomers from mainland China, Hong Kong, and Vietnam...
Suzuki's efforts to restore vigor to the stalled Japanese economy backfired. His plan to end the practice of issuing government bonds to help finance the budget was abandoned after lagging exports and the world recession helped swell the 1982 deficit to $40.1 billion. At the same time, Suzuki's attempts to hold down spending stirred the wrath of the country's largest labor federation. Said a diplomat in Tokyo: "Suzuki simply couldn't deliver...
...page parody? Yes indeed, for Oates needs the space, as she explains: "Alas, how shall we describe the trajectory of Romance? How shall we, obliged to toil in mere words, seek to illume the fleet, fluttering, gossamer sensations, elusive as the hummingbird, that course along the veins, and swell the captive heart, of the credulous...