Word: fragments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...published in Russia during Babel's lifetime, but only a few even begin to approach the lyrical force of such concentrated conceptions as the widely known The Story of My Dovecot, Lyubka the Cossack and Salt. The Jewess, longest story in the book and presumed to be a fragment of a proposed novel, touches on one of Babel's most forceful and most personal themes-the conflicting needs of a Soviet Jew to retain his traditions and be a correct citizen. The Jewess of the title is a country widow whose son Boris, a Bolshevik official, resettles...
...students out of sight. They tend to flock toward the time-consuming laboratory courses, such as the infamous Chem S-20(organic chemistry--60 lectures, 100 hours of laboratory, 13 exam hours of it during the summer._ Outside of course, the H-R students, continuing their winter habits fragment into innumerable small groups centering about activities ranging from the drama to the pinball machines at Tommy's Lunch. (Certain fans of both tend to claim that these two activities are not entirely dissimilar...
...book or a piece of bone china. There are, of course, bad neighborhoods, some colored, some criminal; people with alien names; poor people (mostly lazy); and a dangerous President in the White House. Be that as it may (a favorite locution of Walter Bridge), the place is a licensed fragment of the American dream, from a time when it was still possible to believe that such inequities as existed would soon be expunged by a little hard work and a few more schools and jobs...
Others are more concerned. Although he agrees that organisms might survive a moon fragment's entry into the earth's atmosphere, Cornell Exobiologist Carl Sagan is less confident that they could live through the heat generated by a meteor impact on the moon. For that reason he has doubts that lunar organisms have ever reached the earth and that terrestrial life has already proved its immunity. Sagan, like most other scientists, believes that the odds are high against life existing on the moon. But he cautions that there is "an exceedingly small risk of possibly great harm...
...casts her suspicious eye over the literary poppy field, Miss Hayter cannot be quite so definite about opium's effect on the working poet. Though Coleridge claimed that Kubla Khan sprang to his mind full-fledged from a dream -and is a fragment only because a tradesman interrupted him while he was writing it down-Miss Hayter is unimpressed. She admits that the euphonious fragment was the product of what the poet called "a sleep of the external senses." But she insists that his dreams usually were "disappointingly dull," and suggests that much hard polishing must have gone into...