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...handles words well and has produced a magnificent if frightening volume. Through his keen senses, the armchair adventurer is plunged into a world that out-wonders Wonderland. To many his paradise may seem to be somewhat south of Dante's ninth level of hell and his philosophy may grate. But they will be amazed and relieved to go back to the headlines and petty disturbances of man, to wait in the quiet bliss bombs and bars until A.C.D. returns to tell of his next foray. If he bothers to return...
...Radcliffe junior, who worked in the American embassy in Moscow this summer, said she had "felt tension in the air" all through her stay, but had no idea it would result in the Russian government's blackball of her father as diplomatically a "personna non grate...
...almost imperceptibly, the merchants' movements assume a nervous, nearly furtive air. They start at the slightest sound--the clank of hoof on manhole, the raccous grate of a newly varnished sash, the quick scratch of a mongoose at a loose floorboard...
...well, go beyond those implied in his new title, for the Dean of Admissions will also serve as chairman of the Faculty Committee on Scholarships and Financial Aid. In this capacity, Dean Bender must find new financial sources to support the fast-diminishing Scholarship Fund. And he must inter-grate and policy with admissions policy more closely than has been done in the past...
...event that oure Pilgrimme fathers hae decreed the morrow as a feast day during which much of a wild birde beknownst as Thurkee will be consumed in grate quantity, the editares hae decided upon no towne crier on that...