Word: vastnesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wrong, and Martin, always perceptive, knew it. He felt that something was missing. He kept having these funny dreams about earthworms, telephones, cells, and girls; and although the dreams were ludicrous, they kept reminding him that he had forgotten something of vast importance. Also, Martin was meeting a lot of Cliffies now, and he knew he would have to date one sooner or later. Martin felt a crisis coming...
...manuscripts of Martin Luther--in the last two years alone, it has acquired 22 of Luther's first editions. It has letters of Sheridan and Garrick. One of two recorded copies of the abridged edition of John Cleland's Memoirs of Fanny hill which omits the sexual detail. A vast Goldsmith collection, including the first Swedish translations of the Vicar of Wakefield and The Citizen of the World. First editions of Balzac, Stendahl, and Baudelaire. A theatre collection which includes letters of Booth, working scripts of Jean Renoir, letters of John Gielgud, and manuscripts of Shaw. first editions of Appolinaire...
...vast majority of this research is apolitical, dealing with basic scientific research or applications to medicine. The choices of projects are also apolitical, at least in science...
...chamber-of-horrors reputation, especially many of the older, smaller "mom and pop" homes run by unskilled husband-and-wife teams. Roy Christensen, 35, president of Beverly Enterprises, charges that they often are "just cesspools for the dying aged." By all outward signs, the newer chain homes are a vast improvement. Most are airy, well-lighted, landscaped structures that look like motels. Some have such amenities as barbershops and beauty parlors. Mindful that idleness can break the will to live, many organize activities for patients, including on-premises religious services, movies and tours...
...American probing satellite is picked up on its return by the unwary inhabitants of a small Arizona town. Curious, they open it, inspect it and proceed to die, variously and mysteriously-except for a new baby and an old lush. A four-man scientific team, spearhead of a vast prepackaged program called Operation Wildfire, is immediately dispatched to a sealed-off underground laboratory in the Nevada desert, where both survivors and the capsule are brought. There the specialists attempt to track down the unknown microcosm, identify it as a source of contamination, and produce an antidote. Meanwhile the entire nation...