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When the troops began to call the townsfolk "Bennies" (after a good-natured but dim-witted character on a popular British soap opera), the islanders picked up the name, which they now use more often than the time-honored "Kelpers" (after the seaweed that they once harvested). Locals, in turn, call the British soldiers "Whennies" because of their tendency to go on at boring length about the time "when I was in Belfast" or "when I was on Cyprus." Although occasional fistfights break out on Saturday nights in Port Stanley's pubs, an officer notes that "relations with...
...days out of seven, Floyd's grille in the basement of Cabot House's Barnard Hall just serves hamburgers and other snacks to undergraduates. But on Fridays, from 10 p.m. to 1 a.m., jazz music and dim lighting transform the spot into "Cookin' at the Grille," Harvard's first nightclub...
...Register's weaknesses include drab coverage of culture and lifestyles, dismally cluttered section fronts and dim, grainy photos. Although Editor James Gannon, 44, is highly regarded as a political analyst and Corporate President Michael Gartner, 45, is a syndicated columnist on language and usage, much of the writing in the Register is flat. One notable exception: the paper's strongly worded editorial page. During the past couple of years, the paper has been burdened by corporate skirmishing among the owners, the Cowles family...
...remarked that "as far as man's high gifts can supply the want of a true model, the sculptor has so far moulded the bronze figure of John Harvard. He rests his hand on the open tome between his knees, and gazes for a moment into the future, so dim, so uncertain, yet so full of promise, of promise which has been more than realized...
...moving target," Golding has written in a confessional essay describing his own pursuit by eager scholars). Tucker tracks his prey to a resort in the Swiss Alps and makes his pitch: "Wilf. I want you to appoint me your official biographer." He tacitly offers his beautiful but dim-witted wife to seal the bargain. Barclay resists this awkwardly staged temptation, but he winds up indebted to Tucker all the same. During a fogbound mountain walk, the author leans on a guardrail that collapses. Pulled to safety by his nemesis, Barclay reluctantly admits: "It seems I owe you my life...