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...Bone-Dry Wit. Born in a Hampshire parsonage in 1775, Jane Austen grew up in the world of the French and American Revolutions, and showed no trace of interest in either. The world of her six novels is simply and finally that of genteel young women gunning for husbands (she herself died a spinster at 41). Included inevitably in this world are harassed fathers and embattled moms, superfluous daughters and choosy suitors, haughty heiresses and dashing cads, all playing their parts in an endless round of dances, tea parties and chaperoned strolls, and doing their best never...
...lies in the bone-dry wit and intelligence with which Novelist Austen ordered and fixed this stately marital bear garden; no novelist, before or since, ever trod more precisely the thin borderlines that divide the heart from the purse, the ambitions from the conventions, the rigid rules of the game from the fibbing, cheating gambits of the desperate players. The game is tough often to the point of grimness, but it is always comedy, never tragedy. "Let other pens," wrote plain Jane coolly, "dwell on guilt and misery...
...Christmas Eve lowering clouds hung over Seoul and gusts of bone-chilling rain lashed the streets, drenching the policemen who stood guard with slung carbines outside the Assembly. Inside, the sit-down strike continued. Opposition Assemblymen slept beside their desks. In a seat near the rostrum, tiny Park Soon Chun, the only woman member of the Democratic Party in the Assembly, tiredly wiped her glasses...
...trip extended as much as 100 ft. below the surface) and the shallow ocean floor. Once, Anderson nosed his sub to the seemingly ice-free surface but jarred against thin ice and blacked out both his periscopes. A 15-hour repair feat, in a choppy sea and bone-numbing wind, restored No. 1 periscope to use. Constant fear: that the conditions at the top of the world, which confuse both magnetic and gyro compasses, would doom Nautilus to a game of "longitude roulette," in which the directionless ship might wander aimlessly around the Arctic Ocean without finding either...
...survivors lay limply on hospital beds. All B-58s-the hottest bombers in the Air Force arsenal-were unofficially grounded. A deep question plagued the minds of Air Force investigators: how to do a better job of protecting the flyers of the jet age against the bone-crushing hazards of bail-out at supersonic speeds...