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...Book of Daniel, his most recent work, is about the son of a couple like Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, executed when he was a child, who is trying to live and grow with it. So what better for Doctorow than the era of ragtime--the most hopeful and buoyant, robust and adventurous time in American history, with Teddy Roosevelt president, the muscles of American imperialism first flexing, the First World War not yet fought...
...since 1946 but less than the savings rates in other industrialized nations (Japan's rate, for example, is 23.6%). There is, however, a catch-22: the only way profligate Americans will save more is if they learn to spend less; yet for the next year or so, a robust level of consumer spending is needed to give the recovery momentum...
There is no question that his confidence is robust. Says Washington: "I knew I was good the first time I picked up a bat." That was when he was eleven, but Washington did not flip for baseball at the tune. In fact, he shunned it all the way through Berkeley High School in Berkeley, Calif., where his real passion was basketball. (Small by basketball standards, Washington leaps so high that he has tune to dunk two balls on the same jump.) During the summers he played baseball on a city team, and it was there in 1972 that...
...most of the chlorine entering the atmosphere comes from such natural causes as volcanic eruptions and the release of methyl chloride from certain seaweeds. Scorer's views put him in opposition to many scientists, who consider the atmosphere a fragile entity. Scorer believes the atmosphere is "the most robust and dynamic element in the environment." And, he adds, "man's activities have very little impact...
...novel is carefully framed between 1902 and 1917, surrounding the robust, unambiguous patriotism of Teddy Roosevelt and the complex, brooding morality of Woodrow Wilson. It was Winslow Homer time, when, as Doctorow writes, "a certain light was still available along the Eastern seaboard." Eccentrics still putter in their garages and produce inventions without the aid of research-and-development bureaucracies. Henry Ford's new assembly line and Albert Einstein's peculiar idea that the universe is curved crack the dawn of the modern age. Before long, Doctorow notes, painters in Paris will be putting two eyes...