Essays
… concern, feminine handicrafts, and good old-fashioned community activism; a dazzlingly colorful and ever-expanding … story, expertly conveyed on the Institute For Figuring’s website at theiff. org) a Latvian émigré mathematician named … referencing the domestic roots of handicraft, the Ladies Silurian Atoll was made by a small and intimate group …
… Universe. By Sir James Jeans. New York: The Mac-millan Company. $2.25. The Dynamic Universe. By James MacKaye. New … and the divergencies in treatment reveal widely divergent points of view — and widely, differing sets of readers. … You can no more disprove it than you can disprove the medieval hypothesis of an angel directing the motion of each …
Fiction
… sink has been working well—a satisfying ting, ting, ting . Also the panes of window glass—higher, though, and more … the colors that catch Alice’s eye, the parade of bright bodies turning the corner of 49th street onto the avenue, then … the carton is missing. Then there is dancing. The fat women compliment Alice on her moves. They say they have never seen …
… to sweat graciously. Why resist the inevitable? Why not welcome what brings relief? Swiftly Dr. Gopinath, the … What’s happened? What’s the problem? Her son-in-law has died , the voice tells me. He went to sleep last night and … public fireworks of every American town, city, and golfcourse. No, these firecrackers are meant to explode, to …
… the state named in its title. But its release on June 26, 1934 was greeted with a critical acclaim and commercial success that stunned the author, the publishers, … smooth steps. “He was a very attractive man and quite a ladies’ man,” recalls Robert Harwood, a student of Carmer’s …
… a hairpin in her mouth and a lock of hair lifted in her comb. “You know.” She had just plucked the hairpin from her … up these lampposts. Ice on the windshields, salt crystals and slush in the streets,” he said. “Not to mention … be talking about a funeral. A famous jazz clarinetist had died. The accents were heavy. The man and woman listened to …