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Once the graduate students arrive in Cambridge, however, they encounter innumerable difficulties. Three seem particularly severe: the housing problem, the unfamiliar academic system, and the retention of their "foreign-ness...
Silicon Life. When JPL's space denizens have learned to land softly on the moon, they can do the same on Mars, studying or even fighting off any kind of life that exists there. That life may be based on unfamiliar chemistry, perhaps using silicon in place of carbon and some other solvent in place of water. After Mars, comes Jupiter, the monster planet that seems to be bursting with unexplained commotion...
Raise High is the account of Seymour's wartime wedding day, told as a memory by Buddy, complete with a treasured excerpt from his brother's diary. The prevalent key of the story is dullness and confusion, for the constant use of asides and unfamiliar terminology snows under the genuinely touching scene of Buddy's adventures in a limousine with a selection of the Salinger out-group...
...search for a temporary paycheck during Manhattan's tedious, two-month-old newspaper strike, many a journalist has settled for an unpleasant and unfamiliar job. But of all the compromises forced by the shutdown of nine dailies, none seems more awkward than the gravitation of typewriter-style newsmen to that rival and all-consuming medium...
Although Miller will no longer be giving his well-known lectures on the Puritans, he will hardly be treading in unfamiliar ground. His prolific writings include an analysis of American thought from the Civil War to World War I and other works on the literature of the period, especially in New England...