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...years the Institute for Advanced Study hummed quietly with the intellectual energies of men like Albert Einstein, J. Robert Oppenheimer. Now the halls of its large Georgian central building, set on an isolated wooded hilltop near Princeton University, are filled with outraged mutterings about "breach of confidence," "contemptible conduct" and "second-rate scholarship." This uncharacteristic rancor surrounds an epic struggle between a majority of the institute's faculty and its director, Economist Carl Kaysen...
...scene was much the same at Tachito Somoza's hilltop estate in Managua's El Retiro section. Nicaraguan generals, journalists and crew-cut American hucksters panting to sell prefab housing units milled about one day last week waiting for an audience with the general. Somoza's American wife Hope, a striking woman dressed in a red bandanna, print blouse and tight black slacks, directed Red Cross activities from beneath a shade tree. The mood was relaxed and restrained-even though 3,000 Managuans are known to be dead, another 4,000 were buried alive when the earthquake...
...didn't want any sweet, forgiving grandmother types. Nor did I want any ladies who would find the guy good-looking. I summed up by painting the heinous nature of this crime. The dark night. The cold snow on the ground. The car full of killers on the hilltop. I told that jury that if they did not convict Martin, they were inviting people to come to their own homes at night and kill them in cold blood...
...rest of the book Mersault pursues freedom fitfully. He goes alone to Prague but finds life unbearable away from the sun. Returning to North Africa he moves in with three docile young girls in a hilltop "house above the world." After a while he goes on to Lucienne, who is even more tractable and whose "mindless beauty" seems to him "divine...
...Hall of Benevolence and Longevity, the Hall of Happiness in Longevity, the Hall of Dispelling the Clouds and the Pavilion of the Fragrance of Buddha. Going through the Gate of Longevity and Good Will, she remarked, "That's prophetic." Staring up at a pagoda perched on a hilltop, she asked about climbing up to have a closer look and was told that the trail was too hazardous. "I'm game," she said, but her hosts quickly hurried her on to other sights...