Word: swifts
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...digits wit and style. From one to ten, and then in larger leaps, Animal Numbers (Dial; $11.95) presents fauna with their offspring: a kangaroo and one joey, for example; a swan and two cygnets; a setter and ten puppies. A visit to this overflowing menagerie adds up to swift and painless math (and biology) lessons...
Forget Joslin's swift strides, her thundering rushes up ice, her defensive capabilities...
...that Harvard's swift response to Loury's arrest last week may have been related to the revelations about drug use on the Law School faculty which came out after Douglas Ginsburg's nomination to the Supreme Court. The University may be trying to avoid earning a reputation for condoning drug use on its faculty. But if that's the motivation behind the response to Loury's most recent arrest, the Administration should have said that during the Ginsburg fiasco and not at a time when such a statement makes another indiscretion seem acceptable...
Meyers' ingenious group portrait shows his subjects linked by a kinship of misery. Colleagues praised Roethke's hectic, incandescent verse and gossiped about his violent breakdowns. He described his electroshock therapy in rhyme: "Swift's servant beat him./ Now they use/ A current flowing/ From a fuse." The jolts were useless. He died of a sudden heart attack at 55. Jarrell was not content to be the best poetry reviewer of his time, says Meyers, "he had to be a great, perhaps the greatest poet -- or he was nothing." It was during one dark time that the writer, 51, fell...
...Haiti's new constitution prohibits close associates of the toppled Duvalier regime from seeking public office for the next decade. Last week the Provisional Electoral Council invoked that stricture and ruled ineligible twelve of the 35 declared candidates in presidential elections scheduled for Nov. 29. Reaction was swift and violent. Night after night, armed gangs set fire to the electoral council's headquarters in downtown Port- au-Prince, to a store owned by a prominent council member, and to a plant where ballots were being printed. "We are determined to hold elections," declared the Rev. Alain Rocourt, council treasurer...