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Crusading for the "fully charged" reality of poetic drama, British Poet-Playwright Christopher (The Lady's Not for Burning) Fry warned a BBC audience not to expect him to be impartial: "Any playwright is laying his own world like an egg in the nest of the theater, and he is deeply concerned in hatching...
When one of the great birds, probably Josephine, laid a large, brown-speckled egg, the tension outside the fence neared the bursting point. Wildlifers tramped the marsh, guarding against such raiders as egg-sucking raccoons. Unauthorized visitors were kept at a distance while the cranes took turns on the nest, one of them caring for the egg while the other strode off for food...
...last the great day came. With thumping hearts the telescope watchers kept the nest under minute-to-minute watch. Had the precious egg brought forth a fuzzy nestling? Yes, it was true. Two days later. Little 38 was walking with its tall parents on shaky, wire-thin legs...
...hijacker. Then Luc becomes a ward of the nation, speedily finds that the nation is not much interested in what happens to the sons of heroes. From the cold cup of state charity Luc turns to the warmer brew of Black-Marketeer Vanderputte, a kindly Fagin who harbors a nest of adolescent thieves as runners for his goods...
This is easier said than done for two reasons: medical science has made it possible for men to live longer at the same time that high taxes and high prices are making it harder to save a nest egg for old age. Since the turn of the century, 18 years have been added to the average life expectancy at birth, which is now 65.5 years for the white male infant, 71 for the female; the average man (white) now 65 can expect to live to 77.4, the average woman to 79.4. The number of people in the U.S. past...