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...daily with overcrowded streets and highways, the pounding noise of garbage grinders, or the cosmic distance between the entrance to the airport and the departure gate. We get the message of pain all wrong. Instead of addressing ourselves to the cause, we become pushovers for pills, driving the pain underground and inviting it to return with increased authority...
...published just before his final year at Harvard. Some of his professors and classmates did not like the book -- and particularly their thinly disguised appearances in it -- but most reviewers were ecstatic. One L went on to sell some 40,000 copies in hardback and to become an underground, pass-along classic among law students. Turow confesses himself thrilled by "my first taste of literary success," but he was not swayed from the new path he had chosen. "I gave no thought," he says, with heavy emphasis, "to not practicing...
After 17 years underground, they pop up to the surface by the zillions, covering large areas with a crunchy carpet of five-eyed, frail-winged critters, shedding their skins, singing like drunken maniacs and mating with an abandon that renders the word orgy insufficient...
...captive clientele of hundreds of passengers when they board a train. (Some riders, after all, are not hardened against being dunned for donations.) Because these discomforting confrontations tend to drive down ridership while increasing panhandlership, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority last year decided to enforce rules that ban begging underground as well as in other public-transport facilities...
...paid a call on Yuli Khariton, scientific director of the Installation. I mentioned that I was writing an essay on war and peace, ecology and freedom of expression. Khariton asked what I intended to do with it. "I'll give it to samizdat," I answered, referring to the underground network that had sprung up for circulating dissident writing. "For God's sake, don't do that," he said. "It's too late to stop it now," I confessed...