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...youngest professor ever appointed to the Law School Faculty" the appositizers faithfully call him). He overflows with flair (his first involvement with the Deep Throat saga came when he got the phone message that a hearing for an injunction was in progress. Half an hour later, in a borrowed coat and tie, he was Clarence Darrowing his way through the last hundred years of first amendment law in front of a duly impressed judge). And he's a true believer, the Oral Roberts of the freedom of speech. So what if he likes the press and relishes having...
...quietly with Novelist Pamela Hansford Johnson, whom he married in 1950, and openly relished the honors that rained down on him. He was made a life peer by the Labor government of Harold Wilson in 1964. Although the practice was uncommon in such circumstances, Lord Snow took out a coat of arms. The design bridged the two cultures, showing two quill pens crossed over a telescope. It also included two Siamese cats, his favorite breed, and a Latin motto that can stand as his epitaph: Aut inveniam viam aut faciam-I shall either find a way or make...
...turned landscape painter. Alfgif finds himself beset by a nameless fear. He traces the source to supernatural broadcasts from "the Purpose," which may be the devil, or simply a pantheistic deity. Alfgif gets a lot of help from a winsome polecat named Meg, a pet who rides in his coat pocket and turns out to be the kind of "familiar" (a supernatural spirit-animal form) familiar to witchcraft. He learns that he has modest occult powers himself and eventually converses with one of "the Purpose's" top executives, a gentleman, polite enough but obviously not an Englishman. When this...
...Hampshire trooper--he is knocked unconscious. The authorities, with the press repeating the allegation dutifully, blame the demonstrators for hurling missiles at the police. Demonstrators fall too, giving the Clamshell medics a chance to show their stuff. "BP 160 over 90, pulse rapid," one doctor, his white coat emblazoned with a Magic Marker red cross, intones until his patient decides to get up and walk away...
Leaning out into the dark dormitory hallway at Britain's most celebrated public (i.e., private) school, an 18-year-old senior, dressed in the school's uniform of pinstripe trousers and morning coat, yells loudly: "Boy, up!" Before the echoes can die away, ten lowerclassmen, aged 12 and 13, scramble up the stairwell, tails flapping. Inevitably, one boy arrives last. His punishment: a trip to the store to buy an egg for the senior...