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Frustation, anxiety, insecurity and impotence. Should I go home? Perhaps I don't really belong here anyway. Since I got here all I've been doing is trying to find guts. As you've probably noticed, I'm stupid and boring. Harvard doesn't do much for a tottering...
...Madrid. Carrying pistols, they burst into the embassy on the second floor. Madrid police wisely made no attempt to test the terrorists' threat to kill the three men they had seized as hostages: Ambassador Ghaffar, the press attaché Mohammed Aziti and the consul. The terrorists claimed to belong to a Martyred Abdel Khader Husseini Group, named after a Palestine liberation fighter. The group is thought to be composed of militants from the "rejection front," which is opposed to a negotiated settlement with Israel. They telephoned their demands to a Spanish news agency. Describing the Sinai accord as "treason...
Jakachū has never been well represented in the West, mainly because his finest paintings, the almost legendary 30 scrolls depicting animals and plants, all belong to the imperial collections. To look at the dense patterns and twining lines of a Jakachū in reproduction is at first to be reminded of Victorian illustration, as though he were an Eastern Aubrey Beardsley or Arthur Rackham. Not so. In fact, he was nearer to being a cross, improbable as it may sound, between Audubon and Vincent Van Gogh. When Jakachū painted the arrogant feathers of a cock's ruff...
...that he can write the way he does without beginning to grate. Part of it is that he is an extraordinarily meticulous writer, able to achieve an effortless, limpid tone without leaving any loose sentence ends, or losing the thread of his story, or using words that do not belong exactly where they are. His articles seem to convey information almost by accident and to flow along without any forethought, McPhee having just sat down and written out his impressions of something as he remembered them...
...your expense. Dealt with most specifically, these scoundrels number accountants who steal your money, doctors who remove your healthier organs, the snobs above you who black ball you from their clubs, the "bootless and unhorsed" below you whom you would surely blackball from your club if only you could belong, and almost all relatives...