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Despite his wealth and power, Faisal lived simply and ascetically; his code was the Koran and his customs those of a Bedouin Arab. He neither smoked nor drank, prayed five times a day, and was anxiously concerned with the welfare of his subjects. Thus he continued the tradition of the majlis, or weekly royal audience, at which Saudis were free to approach their King with a message or a petition. No matter how farfetched or long-winded the complaints, Faisal would listen patiently. "If anyone feels wrongly treated, he has only himself to blame for not telling me," he said...
Holmes' book was merely plonking and dull, and thus ludicrously inappropriate; Bernstein's is plonking and offensive. What offends is not the old news that Thurber had sexual problems, drank a lot and toward the end was often outrageously abusive at parties. That description fits half the writers listed in Books in Print. No adult should expect a humorist, or anyone else for that matter, to have a funny life...
...caduceus flippancy about Rogers-as-businessman. His investment philosophy, say his clients, is strictly "traditionalist." So is Rogers. Born William Wayne McMillan Rogers III, the son of a wealthy lawyer in Birmingham, Ala., Rogers in his youth was suitably Southern-comfortable: "I drank beer, chased girls and drove fast cars." Sent to a boarding school for "Southern incorrigibles" in Bell Buckle, Tenn., Rogers finally buckled down and eventually graduated from Princeton with honors...
George S. Santayana, Class of 1886, was to live in conditions not much better than this for his entire four years at Harvard. His situation was not uncommon for a significant portion of Harvard undergraduates at that time. They ate, drank, slept and studied cheaply...
...Apley Court, were the most desirable homes for any well-to-do undergraduate. Theodore Roosevelt. Class of 1880, originally housed with the "regular" Harvard students in the Yard, soon left for the exclusivity of the "Gold Coast," because he felt the ill-mannered, poor boys of the Yard dorms drank too much and partied too often...