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Outer Mongolia has more yurts (circular, felt-covered tents) than houses, and more cattle (21 million) than people (1,000,000). Mongols are born to the saddle, lasso their horses with nooses at the end of long poles, make a strong wine from fermented cow's milk and feast on such dainties as yak butter delicately flavored with yak urine, and sheep intestines stuffed with dried blood. Every traveler on the steppes is welcomed as an honored guest entitled to the best food and accommodations in the yurt...
...searching for a place to celebrate Sukkoth, the Jewish Feast of Tabernacles, Reform Rabbi Jerome Unger could hardly have picked a less hospitable nation than Israel. The town council of Kfar Shmaryahu, a coastal village north of Tel Aviv, refused to rent the town hall to Unger's congregation. Nearby resort hotels, threatened with the withdrawal of their vital Kosher certificates by Orthodox rabbis, also turned him down. The congregation was relegated to a tabernacle in an empty lot, and held services by the light of the worshipers' automobiles. It took an Israeli Supreme Court ruling last week...
...feuding potentates of Massachusetts' Democratic Party gathered in Boston's Statler-Hilton Hotel last night for a $100 a plate unity feast honoring Endicott Peabody '42, their nominee for governor...
Brian Moore, the talented Irish-Canadian author of The Feast of Lupercal and The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne, is the latest novelist to turn savagely on his own kind. Moore's miscreant hero is Brendan Tierney, a young Belfast short-storyist who has emigrated to New York and lost his faith, acquiring in its place a magazine job, some fake Danish furniture and an authentic American wife. Brendan's problem is that he is almost 30, the age at which a promising writer either writes something or becomes merely a pawned talent...
...leather-chaired somnolence of a common room at Cambridge, and makes it crackle with the charges and countercharges of a courtroom trial. Dramatically, the play accumulates tension without generating passion. But for the theatergoer who is willing to forgo emotional nourishment, it provides a stimulating mental feast...