illusion: Intersensory facilitation and rivalry: Stimulation through one sense may enhance the function of another. Seeing a boat rocked by waves may activate the sense of balance in an observer on a pier to the point at which it causes seasickness. A painting of an Arctic…

human nervous system: The peripheral nervous system: …may be classified as either sensory or motor. Sensory ganglia are oval swellings located on the dorsal roots of spinal nerves and on the roots of certain cranial nerves. The sensory neurons making up these ganglia are unipolar. Shaped much like a golf ball on a tee, they have round…

mechanoreception: The sense of touch: …with such specialized structures as tactile hairs. The skin area served by one nerve fibre (or sensory unit) is called a receptive field, although such fields overlap considerably. Particularly sensitive, exposed body parts are sometimes called organs of touch—e.g., the tentacles of the octopus, the beak of the sandpiper, the…

nerve: …the posterior gray column (dorsal horn) of the cord or ascend to nuclei in the lower part of the brain. Immediately lateral to the spinal ganglia the two roots unite into a common nerve trunk, which includes both sensory and motor fibres; the branches of this trunk distribute both…

illusion: Sensory illusions: Many sensory illusions may be described as the aftereffects of the stimulation, or overstimulation, of the senses. Sensitivity in any of the senses may be measured as the just-perceptible intensity (threshold, or limen) of the appropriate stimulus. The smallest detectable stimulus is called…

Anna Jean Ayres: … led to the development of sensory integration theory, which attempts to explain the role of sensations, such as touch, movement, sight, and sound, in human behaviour. Children with sensory integration problems may exhibit insecurity or fear of movement and, consequently, can have difficulty with ordinary activities such as play and…

migraine: Migraine with aura: …of migraine aura is a sensory aura. This usually starts as tingling and numbness in the hand, which then spreads up the arm and jumps to the face. In some cases it may start in the face or elsewhere. Other sensory migraine auras may cause language disturbances, one-sided weakness, or…

nerve: …divided into two categories, namely, sensory (afferent) and motor (efferent). The fibres of these categories and their subdivisions constitute the functional components of the nerves. The combinations of such components vary in the individual cranial nerves; in the spinal nerves they are more uniform.

sensory neuron, nerve cell that carries information about changes in external and internal environments to the central nervous system (CNS). Such neurons are part of the peripheral nervous system, which lies outside the brain and spinal cord. They collect information from so-called sensory

sensory neuron, nerve cell that carries information about changes in external and internal environments to the central nervous system (CNS). Such neurons are part of the peripheral nervous system, which lies outside the brain and spinal cord. They collect information from so-called sensory

nervous system: Simple bilateral systems: Sensory organs also are present and include ciliated pits and grooves, auricles, the frontal organ, statocyst, and eyes. The ciliated pits and grooves contain chemical receptors, or chemoreceptors, which permit the animal to detect food. The statocyst is responsible for balance and such reactions as…

senses, means by which animals detect and respond to stimuli in their internal and external environments. The senses of animals are most usefully described in terms of the kind of physical energy, or modality, involved. There are four main modalities: the light senses (photoreception; i.e.,

human sensory reception, means by which humans react to changes in external and internal environments. Ancient philosophers called the human senses “the windows of the soul,” and Aristotle described at least five senses—sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch. Aristotle’s influence has been so

receptor, molecule, generally a protein, that receives signals for a cell. Small molecules, such as hormones outside the cell or second messengers inside the cell, bind tightly and specifically to their receptors. Binding is a critical element in effecting a cellular response to a signal and is

illusion: Intersensory facilitation and rivalry: Sensory rivalry, in which one stimulus inhibits the perception of another, may result from a conflict of cues if sensory information is ambiguous or discrepant, as in the tilted-room experiment discussed above, during which the visual sense conflicts with cues from the sense of equilibrium.…

ganglion: The dorsal root ganglia contain the cell bodies of afferent nerve fibres (those carrying impulses toward the central nervous system); efferent neurons (carrying motor impulses away from the central nervous system) are present in the ventral root ganglia.

strabismus: …both eyes can lead to sensory strabismus, in which the eye with the poorest vision drifts slightly over time. In children, a common contributor to acquired strabismus is farsightedness (hyperopia), which, when severe enough, can secondarily cause the eyes to cross as the child tries to focus on an object…

senses, means by which animals detect and respond to stimuli in their internal and external environments. The senses of animals are most usefully described in terms of the kind of physical energy, or modality, involved. There are four main modalities: the light senses (photoreception; i.e.,

human nervous system: The spinal cord: The white matter forming the ascending and descending spinal tracts is grouped in three paired funiculi, or sectors: the dorsal or posterior funiculi, lying between the dorsal horns; the lateral funiculi, lying on each side of the spinal cord between the dorsal-root entry zones and the emergence of the ventral…

Kate Bush: The Sensual World and The Red Shoes: With The Sensual World (1989) and The Red Shoes (1993), Bush continued to draw out bold emotions and alluring pop melodies from songs that were elaborately constructed and sometimes inspired by erudite sources. (The title track of the former record, for instance, is a reimagining of…

Sensuntepeque, city, north-central El Salvador. Sensuntepeque is located in the hills south of the Lempa River valley at an elevation of 3,000 feet (900 metres). A major producer of indigo in colonial times, Sensuntepeque has become an agricultural centre for grain, henequen (a fibre for twine),

Alice Walker: Later work and controversies: …Mothers’ Gardens: Womanist Prose (1983), Sent by Earth: A Message from the Grandmother Spirit After the Bombing of the World Trade Center and Pentagon (2001), We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For: Inner Light in a Time of Darkness (2006), and The Cushion in the Road: Meditation and…

John Edgar Wideman: Books and teaching career: …novels, Hiding Place (1981) and Sent for You Yesterday, and a collection of short stories, Damballah (1981), the trilogy also examines the impact of slavery on African Americans. The three works received praise from many critics, and Sent for You Yesterday was awarded the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. In Brothers…

Oceanic art and architecture: Humboldt Bay and Lake Sentani: The area around Humboldt Bay and Lake Sentani is one of intensive stylistic interaction. A striking example of this interaction can be seen in the diffusion, in the early 19th century, of a pyramidal type of ceremonial house from the eastern coast to…

metalogic: Syntax and semantics: …as forming the simple (atomic) sentences, and (3) a set of inductive clauses—inductive inasmuch as they stipulate that natural combinations of given sentences formed by such logical connectives as the disjunction “or,” which is symbolized “∨”; “not,” symbolized “∼”; and “for all ,” symbolized “(∀),” are again sentences. [“(∀)” is…

period, in music, a unit of melodic organization made up of two balanced phrases in succession; the first phrase, called the antecedent, comes to a point of partial completeness; it is balanced by the consequent, a phrase of the same length that concludes with a sense of greater completeness. The

Indian philosophy: Hermeneutics and semantics: …further Prabhakara thesis that the sentence forms the unit of meaningful discourse, that a word is never used by itself to express a single unrelated idea, and that a sentence signifies a relational complex that is not a mere juxtaposition of word meanings. Prabhakara’s theory of language learning follows these…

sentence, in law, formal judgment of a convicted defendant in a criminal case setting the punishment to be meted out. In civil cases the terms decision, award, and judgment are used. Various types of sentences can be given. In cumulative sentences a defendant convicted on several counts receives a

plea bargaining: Types of plea bargains: Sentence bargaining involves assurances of lighter or alternative sentences in return for a defendant’s pleading guilty. One of the most visible forms of sentence bargaining occurs when defendants plead guilty to murder in order to avoid the death penalty. Sentence bargains also occur in less-serious…

Franz Kafka: Works of Franz Kafka: Thus, in The Judgment a son unquestioningly commits suicide at the behest of his aged father. In The Metamorphosis the son, Gregor Samsa, wakes up to find himself transformed into a monstrous and repulsive insect; he slowly dies, not only because of his family’s shame and its…

Louise Erdrich: Novels: That same year Erdrich published The Sentence, a novel about a formerly incarcerated Native woman who works in a Minneapolis bookstore that is haunted by the ghost of a recently deceased customer. Erdrich incorporated real-life events into the work, notably the COVID-19 pandemic and the murder of George Floyd, an…

personality assessment: Sentence-completion techniques: The sentence-comple-tion technique may be considered a logical extension of word-association methods. In administering a sentence-completion test, the evaluator presents the subject with a series of partial sentences that he is asked to finish in his own words (e.g., “I feel upset when…

St. Albertus Magnus: …two years on Peter Lombard’s Sentences, the theological textbook of the medieval universities. In 1245 he was graduated master in the theological faculty and obtained the Dominican chair “for foreigners.”

Howard Nemerov: (1973), The Western Approaches (1975), Sentences (1980), Inside the Onion (1984), and War Stories (1987). As a social critic, he produced powerfully satiric poems.

Spain: Aragon and Catalonia: …problem by a compromise, the Sentencia de Guadalupe, which effectively abolished serfdom and the more-oppressive feudal obligations of the peasants in return for monetary payments to the lords. Otherwise, the political and legal privileges of the rural nobility and the urban aristocracy were left intact. Effectively, therefore, Ferdinand made no…

converso: Pedro Sarmiento, wrote the anti-Semitic Sentencia-Estatuto, which prohibited conversos from holding public or ecclesiastical offices and from testifying against Spanish Christians in courts of law. That statute was followed by the 16th-century laws of purity of blood (limpieza de sangre) which further strengthened the laws against anyone of Jewish ancestry…

sentence, in law, formal judgment of a convicted defendant in a criminal case setting the punishment to be meted out. In civil cases the terms decision, award, and judgment are used. Various types of sentences can be given. In cumulative sentences a defendant convicted on several counts receives a

propositional calculus, in logic, symbolic system of treating compound and complex propositions and their logical relationships. As opposed to the predicate calculus, the propositional calculus employs simple, unanalyzed propositions rather than terms or noun expressions as its atomic units; and,

connective, in logic, a word or group of words that joins two or more propositions together to form a connective proposition. Commonly used connectives include “but,” “and,” “or,” “if . . . then,” and “if and only if.” The various types of logical connectives include conjunction (“and”),

St. Albertus Magnus: …two years on Peter Lombard’s Sentences, the theological textbook of the medieval universities. In 1245 he was graduated master in the theological faculty and obtained the Dominican chair “for foreigners.”

St. Isidore of Sevilla: …biographies of 86 biblical persons; Sententiarum libri tres (“Three Books of Sentences”), a handbook of morals and theology in the form of collected sentences; De officiis ecclesiasticis (“On Church Duties”), a liturgical work dealing with offices and clerical members; and Synonima (“Synonyms”), a spiritual meditation.

Italo Calvino: …dei nidi di ragno (1947; The Path to the Nest of Spiders), which views the Resistance through the experiences of an adolescent as helpless in the midst of events as the adults around him; and the collection of stories entitled Ultimo viene il corvo (1949; Adam, One Afternoon, and Other…

Voltaire: Achievements at Ferney of Voltaire: He directed Le Sentiment des citoyens (1764) against Rousseau. In this anonymous pamphlet, which supposedly expressed the opinion of the Genevese, Voltaire, who was well informed, revealed to the public that Rousseau had abandoned his children. As author he used all kinds of pseudonyms: Rabbi Akib, Pastor…

Australia: Film: …of the silent era was The Sentimental Bloke (1919), a tale of a working-class fellow in search of romance that embraced the slang and culture of Sydney. Film production from 1930 to 1950 was limited mostly to documentaries developed under the guidance of the Commonwealth Film Unit. After World War…

sentimental comedy, a dramatic genre of the 18th century, denoting plays in which middle-class protagonists triumphantly overcome a series of moral trials. Such comedy aimed at producing tears rather than laughter. Sentimental comedies reflected contemporary philosophical conceptions of humans as

A Sentimental Education, novel by Gustave Flaubert, published in French in 1869 as L’Éducation sentimentale: histoire d’un jeune homme. The story of the protagonist, Frédéric Moreau, and his beloved, Madame Arnoux, is based on Flaubert’s youthful infatuation with an older married woman. Frédéric’s

Walter Lang: Films of the 1940s: Sentimental Journey (1946) was a melodrama about a Broadway couple (John Payne and Maureen O’Hara) who adopt a little girl, only for the mother to pass away. Mother Wore Tights (1947) was another period musical for Grable, here as half of a husband-and-wife vaudeville song-and-dance…

Doris Day: …popular recordings, among them “Sentimental Journey.” Day went solo in 1947 and achieved great success as a recording artist. Her singing was distinguished by crystal clear tone and the ability to convey great emotion without histrionics.

Ringo Starr: Solo career: music, acting, and photography: …his first two solo albums, Sentimental Journey, consisting of standards from the 1930s and ’40s, and Beaucoups of Blues, a collection of country music, were both released in 1970. He also had several hit singles during the 1970s, notably “It Don’t Come Easy” (1971), “Back Off Boogaloo” (1972), and “Photograph”…

A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy, comic novel by Laurence Sterne, published in two volumes in 1768. The book, a combination of autobiography, fiction, and travel writing, chronicles the journey through France of a charming and sensitive young man named Yorick and his servant La Fleur.

Joan Didion: …the essays constituting the volume After Henry (1992; also published as Sentimental Journeys).

sentimental novel, broadly, any novel that exploits the reader’s capacity for tenderness, compassion, or sympathy to a disproportionate degree by presenting a beclouded or unrealistic view of its subject. In a restricted sense the term refers to a widespread European novelistic development of the

Giuseppe Ungaretti: Further change is evident in Sentimento del tempo (1933; “The Feeling of Time”), which, containing poems written between 1919 and 1932, used more obscure language and difficult symbolism.

breast cancer: Diagnosis: … generally begins in a so-called sentinel lymph node (the first lymph node invaded by cancer cells) and, in the case of breast cancer, spreads to axillary lymph nodes, which are located in and around the armpits.

metabolomics: Metabolomics in agriculture and environmental monitoring: Sentinel species, which readily accumulate pollutants and therefore serve as indicators of ecosystem health, have been evaluated for different environments, including terrestrial, freshwater, and marine habitats. Examples of sentinel species in each of those environments include earthworms, fathead minnows (Pimephales promelas) and water fleas, and…

John Carradine: …included The Shootist (1976) and The Sentinel (1977). He was also the patriarch of an acting family; four of his five sons—David, Robert, Keith, and Bruce—acted in films and on television.

Michael Douglas: Later films: …of an assassination attempt in The Sentinel (2006), and in King of California (2007) he portrayed a patient recently released from a mental hospital who is looking for gold underneath a discount store.

Jean-Baptiste Louvet: …committee, launched a poster newssheet, La Sentinelle, in March 1792, to combat the court’s policy. The newssheet was soon subsidized by the Ministry of the Interior, then under J.-M. Roland, and its success helped Louvet’s election to the Convention as deputy for Loiret.

Sir Anthony Saint Leger was an English lord deputy of Ireland from 1540 to 1548, 1550 to 1551, and 1553 to 1556. Considered by many historians to be the most able 16th-century English viceroy of Ireland, he maintained peace in that country by upholding the feudal privileges of the powerful native

furo: …a public bathhouse, called a sento, is common throughout Japan. It has its counterparts in youth hostels, hotels, dormitories, and inns. An attendant sells tickets at the entrance. Having paid, the bather enters the public dressing room for the appropriate sex. Clothing goes into lockers or into plastic or rattan…

Central League, one of the two associations of professional baseball teams in Japan (the other being the Pacific League). Both the Central League and the Pacific League were founded in 1950. The Central League comprises six teams, each of which is owned and sponsored by a major corporation. The

Netherlands Antilles: Relief: …1,119 feet (341 metres) at Sentry Hill in the Dutch part of Saint Martin, 1,198 feet (365 metres) at The Quill, an extinct volcano on Sint Eustatius, with a large forested crater, and 2,910 feet (887 metres) at Mount Scenery, an extinct volcano on Saba that is the islands’ highest…

Senufo, a group of closely related peoples of northern Côte d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast) and southeastern Mali. They speak at least four distinct languages (Palaka, Dyimini, and Senari in Côte d’Ivoire and Suppire in Mali), which belong to the Gur branch of the Niger-Congo language family. Within each

Gur languages: …two groups: Central Gur and Senufo. Central Gur itself breaks down into two major subgroups, termed Oti-Volta (with some 25 languages in Ghana, Togo, Benin, and Burkina Faso) and Grusi (with a further 20 languages, some to the west and others to the east of the Oti-Volta group). The largest…

Fujiwara Shunzei: …poems) and compiler of the Senzaishū (“Collection of a Thousand Years”), the seventh Imperial anthology of classical Japanese poetry.

Shaka: Early life and accession: Shaka was the son of Senzangakona, chieftain of the Zulu, and Nandi, an orphaned princess of the neighbouring Langeni clan. Because his parents belonged to the same clan, their marriage violated Zulu custom, and the stigma of this extended to the child. The couple separated when Shaka was six, and…

search engine optimization (SEO), practice of increasing both the quality and quantity of “organic” (unpaid) traffic to a website by improving its ranking in the indexes of search engines. Search engines use “bots” (data-collecting programs) to hunt the Web for pages. Information about these pages

Zaragoza: The older is the Cathedral of La Seo, or Cathedral of Salvador, chiefly a Gothic building (1119–1520) but showing some traces of the earlier Romanesque church built on the site of the first mosque erected in Spain. The Nuestra Señora del Pilar Cathedral, dedicated to the Virgin of the…

Valencia: …important church is the cathedral, La Seo, situated in the ancient city centre. Begun in the 13th century (completed 1482), it represents several styles—its three doorways are respectively Romanesque, Baroque, and Gothic—and it possesses many works of art, including two large religious paintings by Goya. On Thursdays at noon the…

Galicia: Geography: …Nobel Prize for Literature; painter Luis Seoane (1910–79), who promoted Galician culture while in exile in Argentina; and Urbano Lugrís (1902–73), a Surrealist painter who used the sea as a constant feature in his work.

Seohak, in Korean history, the study of Western culture, introduced into Korea from the Chinese Ming and Qing dynasties in the 17th and 18th centuries. In a broad sense, the term Seohak refers to the study of Western thought, religion, ethics, science, and technology. In a narrow sense, it

Seokguram, Buddhist artificial cave-temple on the crest of Mount Toham, near the Bulguk Temple, Gyeongju, South Korea. Built in the 8th century, Seokguram is a domed circular structure of granite blocks. A square anteroom houses eight guardian figures in relief. On an elevated lotus pedestal a

South Korea: Daily life and social customs: …important holidays are Seollal (Lunar New Year) and Chuseok (harvest moon festival, often referred to as the Korean Thanksgiving), both observed according to the lunar calendar. These are marked by the gathering of families in the ancestral hometown or at the home of the head of the family. Traditional…

Zen, important school of East Asian Buddhism that constitutes the mainstream monastic form of Mahayana Buddhism in China, Korea, and Vietnam and accounts for approximately 20 percent of the Buddhist temples in Japan. The word derives from the Sanskrit dhyana, meaning “meditation.” Central to Zen

Seongnam, city, Gyeonggi do (province), northwestern South Korea, about 12 miles (19 km) southeast of Seoul. Given the status of a municipality in 1973, it developed rapidly as a satellite city of Seoul, absorbing some of the capital’s population and light industries. During the late 20th century

Seoni, city, southeastern Madhya Pradesh state, central India. It is situated on an upland plateau just south of the Satpura Range. Seoni was founded in 1774. The city is now an important road and rail junction and is the chief commercial centre of the east-central Satpura Range area. Cloth

Gyeongju, city, North Gyeongsang do (province), southeastern South Korea. It is 17 miles (28 km) inland from the coast of the East Sea (Sea of Japan) and 34 miles (55 km) east of the provincial capital, Daegu. It was the capital of the Silla kingdom (57 bce–935 ce), and its ancient name was

Sokcho: …by a pine forest, and Seoraksan National Park is located just west of the city. Pop. (2020) 80,054.

Seoul, city and capital of South Korea (the Republic of Korea). It is located on the Han River (Han-gang) in the northwestern part of the country, with the city center some 37 miles (60 km) inland from the Yellow Sea (west). Seoul is the cultural, economic, and political center of South Korea.

Seoul 1988 Olympic Games, athletic festival held in Seoul that took place September 17–October 2, 1988. The Seoul Games were the 21st occurrence of the modern Olympic Games. After boycotts had marred the previous two Olympiads, political problems threatened to return to center stage at the 1988

Seoul: Government: …the executive branch, and the Seoul Metropolitan Council, the legislative body. The administrative structure contains three tiers: si (city), gu (district), and dong (neighborhood; literally, “village”). The mayor of the metropolitan government and the mayors of the gu are elected to four-year terms. Serving under the mayors at both levels…

Seoul: Education: …major universities and research institutes—including Seoul National University, Yonsei University, Sookmyung Women’s University, and Ewha Womans University—are located in Seoul.

hantavirus: Hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome: …result from infection with the Seoul virus, which is carried by the Norway rat (Rattus norvegicus). Seoul virus infections typically occur in Asia, though the virus has also been detected elsewhere, including in Brazil and in the United States.

Seowon, private Confucian academies of the Korean Joseon (Yi) dynasty (1392–1910), founded by the members of the ruling class who did not hold official posts; their purpose was the educating of local yangban, or aristocratic youth. Seowon were usually built on sites associated with famous Confucian

measurement system: The Egyptians: … and 10 debens equaling 1 sep. Over the long duration of Egyptian history, the weight of the kite varied from period to period, ranging all the way from 4.5 to 29.9 grams (0.16 to 1.05 ounces). Approximately 3,500 different weights have been recovered from ancient Egypt, some in basic geometric…

A SEP IRA is a tax-deferred retirement plan for those who are self-employed, small business owners, or who earn additional self-employment income. SEP IRAs are often easier to administer than 401(k) plans, so many small businesses use them to help their employees prepare for retirement.

Mikołaj Sęp Szarzyński was a Polish religious poet remembered for writing metaphysical sonnets with inverted word orders. A member of a noble Protestant family, Sęp Szarzyński studied in Wittenberg and Leipzig, Germany, moving later to the University of Padua in Italy. He returned to Poland in 1567

Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), the most powerful branch of the Iranian armed forces, independent of Iran’s regular army and accountable only to the Office of the Supreme Leader. It was established by Ruhollah Khomeini, Iran’s first leader (1979–89), and strengthened under the presidency

Ferdowsī: …at the court of the Sepahbād Shahreyār, whose family claimed descent from the last of the Sāsānians. There Ferdowsī composed a satire of 100 verses on Sultan Maḥmūd that he inserted in the preface of the Shāh-nāmeh and read it to Shahreyār, at the same time offering to dedicate the…

Malaysia: Sports and recreation: Sepak takraw (“kick ball”) is a uniquely Southeast Asian game (now played in other regions) that is similar to volleyball but is played with a woven rattan ball and without using the hands. The sport is internationally competitive, and Malaysia has fronted winning teams.

Malaysia: Sports and recreation: Sepak takraw (“kick ball”) is a uniquely Southeast Asian game (now played in other regions) that is similar to volleyball but is played with a woven rattan ball and without using the hands. The sport is internationally competitive, and Malaysia has fronted winning teams.

sepal, any of the outer parts of a flower that enclose and protect the unopened flower bud. The sepals on a flower are collectively referred to as the calyx. They are sterile floral parts and may be either green or leaflike or composed of petal-like tissue. From their base and along most of their

Baptist: Colonial period: …of revivalistic Baptists, known as Separate Baptists, who soon coalesced with the older New England Baptist churches. In the South, however, they maintained a separate existence for a longer period of time. Shubael Stearns, a New England Separate Baptist, migrated to Sandy Creek, North Carolina, in 1755 and initiated a…

separate but equal, the legal doctrine that once allowed for racial segregation in the United States. The doctrine held that so long as segregation laws affected white and Black people equally, those laws did not violate the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S.

Plessy v. Ferguson: Background: …as a challenge to Louisiana’s Separate Car Act (1890). The law required that all railroads operating in the state provide “equal but separate accommodations” for white and African American passengers and prohibited passengers from entering accommodations other than those to which they had been assigned on the basis of their…

James Watt: The Watt engine: …suddenly came upon a solution—the separate condenser, his first and greatest invention. Watt had realized that the loss of latent heat (the heat involved in changing the state of a substance—e.g., solid or liquid) was the worst defect of the Newcomen engine and that therefore condensation must be effected in…

Julian Fellowes: …scripts for Vanity Fair (2004); Separate Lies (2005), which he also directed; The Young Victoria (2009); The Tourist (2010); Romeo and Juliet (2013); and The Chaperone (2018). He also published the novels Snobs (2004) and Past Imperfect (2008) and publicly acknowledged that he had written “bodice-ripping” romance novels under

separation: This is called a decree of separate maintenance. It fixes the obligations of the deserting spouse toward the other. The procedures for obtaining separate maintenance and setting its terms are essentially the same as those involved in alimony. The grounds required for separate maintenance must usually be serious, especially…

separation: This is called a decree of separate maintenance. It fixes the obligations of the deserting spouse toward the other. The procedures for obtaining separate maintenance and setting its terms are essentially the same as those involved in alimony. The grounds required for separate maintenance must usually be serious, especially…

A Separate Peace, novel by John Knowles, published in 1959. It recalls with psychological insight the maturing of a 16-year-old student at a New England preparatory school during World War II. Looking back to his youth, the adult Gene Forrester reflects on his life as a student at Devon School in