He bent over the old woman again, with his ear turned flatly to her lips and then to the region of her heart.

But if you were the mother of four, if you had not been shopping in Dale City for seven months, if in that time your wildest orgies had been two or three kensingtons (kensington being the Meadows equivalent of sewing circle), the day would have taken on the nature of an event.

The subject area of the book is in rapid, if not turbulent, change. It is surprising how many of our colleagues have been bitten by the same bug. New ideas, perspectives, approaches, and projects arise everywhere.

Two words are anagrams if they are made up of the same multiset of letters.