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HOSTAGE IN PEKING by Anthony Grey. 365 pages. Doubleday...
...British diplomats paid a brief official call on imprisoned Reuters Correspondent Anthony Grey in Peking. At that point, Grey had spent 466 days in isolation as a hostage. His visitors left, deeply shaken by his apparent despair. Said one, afterward: "He lives in a void...
...WHICH the spelling bee stings a mole (of electrons) and the girl in the grey flannel suit hears from Radcliffe...
...What kind of a student is Radcliffe looking for? An obvious question with a not-so-obvious answer," explains Introducing Radcliffe. They were not, for example, looking for the girl in the grey flannel suit. They were, apparently, looking for you and me and the girl down the hall, the one who runs a vacuum cleaner every Sunday morning at 6 a. m. In high school the corridors smell of chalk dust, and lunch costs 45c with milk, and who the hell are they looking for? I, you see, knew all the Presidents once, but Margie knew all the Presidents...
...Radcliffe Admissions officers are looking for different kinds of young women.... Radcliffe needs all kinds of people." What did the girl in the grey flannel suit imagine in high school? When you read the pamphlet, what did you see? A violinist, a Merit Scholar or two, a Shakespeare expert? A poet, a biochemist, an aristocrat? Cultured young women, taking tea with the Galbraiths? Hornrimmed girls in dirty trenchcoats dotting the steps of Widener Library? The chocolate, peach and lime the CRIMSON warned of? Or Playboy's poll: "Cliffies are Merit Scholars who are good in bed" (thank God! the best...