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...carrying on the Resistance. There was an intellectual and social defiance which the Nazis could never conquer, and it continued despite the imposition of censorship and curfew--even though if one missed the last metro, the veneer of normal life would vanish and one could be arrested at random on the street...
...lists hundreds of contacts in the acknowledgements, including Henry Fonda, Lauren Bacall, Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., John McPhee, William Saroyan (apparently still kicking around), Frank Sinatra, John Cheever and John Updike. They all find their way into the narrative. O'Hara's employers--Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, The New Yorker, Random House and the Screenwriters Guild--allowed MacShane to dig through O'Hara's files...
Until recently, the only information scientists had about this nebula was from its random sightings from the earth's Southern Hemisphere. Recently, it has been resolved to consist of several individual sources of light, but R136A is the first actual star that astronomers have spotted amidst this massive cloud. But some doubts remain among scientists...
...before one can appreciate not how much he has left out of this tiny Ray (a book of some 60 chapters in only 113 pages) but how much he manages to recreate. Doctor Ray alternates between the first and third persons, his thoughts follow each other in a seemingly random order, and yet he emerges with the clarity of night neon. He wants to resist becoming another victim of "the American confusion"--he wants the carbon monoxide and the cancers to go away--he wants the persiflage to magically transform itself into poetry. He wants...and that's all that...
Strenio uses statistics freely, but skimps on explaining them, with the disclaimer that mathematical complexities are irrelevant. But among his self-styled "basic" explanations is the airy statement that the "bell-normal" curve used to calibrate percentile rankings is a shape chosen by testmakers at random, without any theoretical relation to distributions. Elsewhere, in a similar attempt to scale down concepts for the reader, he misdefines social Darwinism...