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Only a few--and E.B. White is one--write so well they can get away with precision, with coziness, with beautifully turned sentences, with smallness. It is not dazzling, or attention-grabbing, and that is the point. Great carpenters plane and sand and join with such skill that they lend significance to their product, and writers can do the same. In an age of literary civil engineers, when the multitudes try to write novels taller than the Sears Tower, White is a carpenter, rubbing his essays and, in this instance, sketches and poems, with 600-grade sandpaper till they...
...Libyan-Egyptian border. Another Western diplomat said flatly: "The means employed by this Administration are completely disproportionate to the intended effect. They nullify it." In Bonn, officials privately called the approach heavy handed, fearing that it would attract attention to U.S. interests in Egypt, fan further Islamic unrest and lend substance to Soviet charges that the Egyptian government is an American puppet. Right on cue, the Soviet press accused the Administration of "crude interference" in Egypt's affairs and insisted that the U.S. was "feverishly stepping up war preparations in the Middle East...
...Miller's suppliers delayed payments on his monthly food and laundry bills, but then they began demanding cash on delivery. As his debts grew-eventually to more than $4,000 per month in payments-McMiller tried to borrow his way out of trouble, but no bank would lend. Last August he filed to restructure his debt under the Federal Bankruptcy Act. He has laid off six of his ten employees and leased his restaurant...
...students protested recent Reagan administration proposals that would "ease restrictions on internal spying, tighten federal regulations on classified materials, and lend support to dictatorships, throwing our human rights policy out the window," Stefan Cluver, a junior who faces disciplinary action, said this week...
What the proper role of the Houses should be--and whether they are fulfilling it--is another vexing question Bok must cope with if he continues to tackle the behavior issue. Few students today lend their primary allegiance to their House; most feel more a part of outside organizations, like athletic teams. The Houses in large part have thus become atomized. Cliques developing in a given House reinforce themselves through the housing lottery's peculiar form of natural selection, making House unity hard to attain...