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...Wienckus may be disorderly, but one pauses to wonder where the essential disorder really lies. All of us are instructed to seek hallways these days (except school children, who crawl under the desks), and it was in a hallway that they found Mrs. Wienckus. We read recently that the only hope of avoiding inflation is through ever increasing production of goods. This to us is always a terrifying conception of the social order--a theory of the good life through accumulation of objects. . . We salute a woman whose affairs are in such excellent order in a world untidy beyond belief...
...house of her Indian girl friend Naomi, where a gang of fascinating outcasts has created a Guiana version of Greenwich Village, a classless, promiscuous world where True Story and London's New Statesman and Nation share the same rickety table, and illegitimate moppets of varying shades of color crawl among the legs of "dark" Reds, "light" philosophers, and girls whose hair is unspeakably...
...first Broadway hit (John Murray Anderson's Almanac), got off some mouthfuls between mouthfuls. On Englishmen as lovers: "The trouble with most of them is inbreeding-and eating all those Brussels sprouts." On a top-heavy Hollywood starlet: "It's amazing how far a girl can crawl on her bosom...
...lived to see even his fame turn to the ashes of parody: "My success has encouraged such a shoal of ill-spawned monsters to crawl into public notice, under the title of Scots Poets, that the very term, Scots Poetry, borders on the burlesque." When his excise pay "was cut, Burns went to bed with a fever, and on July 12, 1796, begged ?10 of a cousin: "A rascal of a Haberdasher to whom I owe a considerable bill . . . has commenced a process against me . . . O, James! . . . Save me from the horrors of a jail!" Within a fortnight, and before...
Pentagon Washout. Another of Rickover's projects, a 60,000-kilowatt reactor for an airplane carrier, had a less happy outcome. Last spring, after two years of work had gone into it, Secretary of Defense Wilson canceled its "military requirement," and work on it slowed to a crawl...