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...surprise to him to know that the average Ford Motor Co. worker (not executive) earns $16,000 a year. Even with inflation, $16,000 permits a family man to look forward to a lot more than merely getting drunk on weekends. As a matter of fact, the vivid proof of the growing well-being and prosperity of the average worker is attested to by the summer spectacle of our highways--choked with the vacation-bound cars of the "oppressed" American proletariat...
...period show he was a good draftsman who could depict a naked woman with an earthy sensuousness that Renoir might have approved. In the early '20s on a trip back to the New York School of Art, he became interested in Art Student Josephine Verstille Nivison, a small, vivid, thirtyish woman whose volubility and quick wit were the exact opposite of Hopper's quiet slowness. In 1924, when Hopper was 42, they married. From then on, she did nearly all the modeling for his nudes and other feminine figures. Perhaps it says something about their curious yet enduring...
...that failure allowed Skinner to swing his attention back to one of the pet interests of his youth: animal behavior. As a boy, he had had toads and chipmunks. He also had a vivid memory of watching a troupe of trained pigeons at a county fair play at putting out a fire. Besides, he had read and been excited by some Bertrand Russell articles in the old Dial magazine about Johns Hopkins Psychologist John B. Watson, father of behaviorism. It was with Watson, in 1913, that psychology really emerged from its origins in philosophy to become a full-fledged scientific...
...long and contains no fewer than 55 chapters full of encounters, imbroglios, plots. Not all of them work, and occasionally the pace slackens. The author is vulnerable to charges of excess and lack of critical judgment. One may as well try to defend reality. The only rejoinder is how vivid and how much like life the book is. The late Randall Jarrell once defined the novel as "a prose narrative of some length that has something wrong with it." This is a novel. · Martha Duffy
Letting their imaginations roam, the authors provide a vivid description of what might follow the catastrophic impact. As the comet's head, or nucleus, struck the earth's surface, tons of molten rock would be hurled thousands of miles, falling and hardening in tektite-like patterns far from the point of collision. At the same time, another spectacular event may well have occurred. The gases contained in the comet nucleus-particularly frozen ammonia and methane-would have spread through the atmosphere and the water, drastically changing the environment for primitive life. Then, in a swirling finale...