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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...some naive quarters, the mistaken belief is held that spring is here. This is a misleading doctrine and the adherents of it are guilty of perhaps-handedness, albeit a weak and deviationist variant. Since objective meterological evidence clearly proves that spring is not here and cannot ever be here, the belief that it is spring constitutes a victims and criminal act whose divisive influence all students are urged to combat...
...after that? And how could Daughter Jill, so sweet and pure, shed her grief so soon and take up with her nymphomaniac sister's young lover? Any reader who thinks at this point that he is settling down to a Spoon River mystery or even a variant on An American Tragedy does not know his Grubb. As the story of the sheriff, his daughters and his dead wife unfolds, the murder is seen for what Grubb meant it to be: a mere clue to the piled-up passions and cruelties that...
Italy, his chosen home, held more than merely visual delights for him. Despite his occasional arch references to Italy's modernization, he makes clear how much he understands and admires the Italian character, especially its Sicilian variant...
...reason behind the fad by tape-recording interviews with hundreds of customers waiting to buy dakkochans. The replies are sociologically disappointing. Some teen-agers say they are buying a dakkochan because their friends have bought dakkochans. The vast majority, however, reply with one or another variant of "It's so cute and lovable that I just have to have one." Says Suda: "Japanese have always been soft on children, and standing all night in line to buy a toy is just another proof of that. I feel guilty about the situation...
...anomaly appears to be the result of a failure in subdivision, traceable to the maternal egg. In a wide range of sex abnormalities related to hermaphroditism. the number of chromosomes may range from 45 to 48. Among the anomalies, "super females" with three X (female) chromosomes, and a variant with three X chromosomes and one Y (male...