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...resources of Widener Library are scarcely more helpful. There is about half a drawer of cards on "Bohemian" and most of the books are published in exotic Slavic languages. The inestimable William Dean Howells boldly commented: "To explain what Bohemian meant, or what Bohemia was... no one can quite do." And the New York Times cautioned its readers in 1858 that Bohemians are "seductive in their ways, and they hold the finest sentiments. The Bohemian cannot be called a useful member of society." Throughout history, people have seemed reluctant to explain the phenomenon of the Bohemian...
...stand on a box to reach the blackboard, and when he went walking with bonny Jean, she was half a head taller than he. That very night, with the courage of desperation, the thrifty young Scotsman scraped his last bob from the back of the bureau drawer and sent off for the Henry Samson Body-Building Course...
Police also discovered the shipping news page from the Oct. 3 edition of The New York Times in his desk drawer. The page was folded to the schedule of incoming military transports...
...Prince Rainier and Princess Grace of Monaco. All tokens pointed to continued good relations between the U.S. and the vestpocket principality, as President Eisenhower and the royal couple chatted easily of places they've all visited and people they've known-and fishing. Rummaging in his desk drawer for a gift for Rainier, Ike pulled out a velvet-swathed box, then suddenly changed his mind and instead handed the Prince a handsome leathercovered box with a "fishing lighter" for cigarettes. After their 25-minute social call, Monaco's rulers moved on to a press conference...
Perhaps the book's most interesting and significant part concerns what Hero Eliot likes best-his administrative work in a hush-hush atomic-energy project buzzing with top-drawer office politics. The anatomy of power excites Author Snow (himself a sometime physicist and civil servant) in the same way that the very rich fascinated Scott Fitzgerald, and he is at his best in scenes in which two or three top civil servants measure out other men's job futures in judicious mumbles. On this power ladder, Eliot represents the "new men," the non-U's in Nancy...