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...bovine, and interested only in a passing grade. In his determination to give Cascadia his very best, Levin tries to light a divine fire in them, to teach them "what's for sale in a commercial society, and what had better not be." He gets back only a blank, uncomprehending stare. To his fellow teachers, Levin seeks to communicate his passionate belief that the liberal arts should have an equal place in the curriculum alongside animal husbandry and road engineering. They back away as if fearing infection...
...S.A.O. had been connected with the bomb attempt on De Gaulle's life. Two days later, Salan's men bombed the national television station's transmitter near Algiers just before a scheduled program on De Gaulle's tour. As TV screens went blank, the voice of Salan came on (it was obviously broadcast on the TV station's frequency from a nearby clandestine transmitter). "All Algerians should consider themselves mobilized," said Salan. "We must remain vigilant and understand the importance of the Secret Army in Algeria...
Seamy Side. A pastor's son, Heldt took early in life to the seamy back streets of Berlin of the '20s, where blank-faced men and women stood bathed in the ghostly light of a single street lamp or hung around restaurants and bars that were tense and joyless, as if the whole city knew of the dark days just ahead. After Hitler came to power, Heldt quit painting, became a kind of vagabond doing whatever jobs he could find. He was drafted into the army in World War II, and spent three months as a British prisoner...
...Skow passed a negative judgment on Salinger's desire for privacy. Some writers run for public office, others enjoy the social whirl, others get into scrapes with the police. This is their business. But a man who asks nothing but to be left in peace to attack the blank pages in his typewriter should be able to do just that without being sniped at by a Swados or a Skow...
...dugout cutup, Lary was nicknamed "Taters" by Tiger teammates because he once wrote "taters" on a dining-car order blank, is a guitar-strumming hillbilly singer on an Alabama radio station in the off season. But Lary is not an ambitionless rube. He hopes to quit with his pension after three more years to develop a 40-acre Alabama water recreation area called Frank Lary Lake. ''Ten years in baseball would be enough." he says. "I should spend more time with my family. I'm not home enough to raise my kids...