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...figures that populate his books are, instead, fantasmo embodiments of various sorts of foaming mania. Among the twitches ambulant in Arigato are compulsive gambling, saxophone playing, war games, gold lust, French cookery, banking, power-elitism and think-tankery. Fine, thinks the reader, that sounds lively...
...been discontinued this year after the director, Mania M. Seferi, assistant professor of Cityland Regional Planning, refused to accept any projects...
...outset, we would like to indicate our support for Director Mania Seferi's decision to discontinue the Field Service, given the present conditions under which it would have to operate. The Urban Field Service was created in order to provide research and technical assistance to groups which could not otherwise obtain such services, and to provide students with the opportunity to work for community groups in terms of community-defined needs. Such work would be done under the supervision of professionals, which requires substantial financial support for the UFS. The important point was, however, that community groups would themselves...
...Mania M. Seferi, assistant professor of City and Regional Planning, said in her second memorandum in 13 months to the same effect that the GSD should reevaluate the School's commitment to field work for academic credit...
...biographer, Jeffrey shares the mania for list making that afflicts everyone from Joyce to Susan Sontag. There are catalogues of Edwin's first utterances ("nnnn" for complaining, "kkkk" for giggling and "chff" - "an early version of Jeffrey?"); the 54 books Edwin owned at age two. There are also bull's-eye descriptions of the exquisite boredom of kindergarten, and a fine malevolent parody of children's picture books called The Lonely Island ("Sometimes rain came to the island...but then it went away...The island dreamed "of an ocean with many islands...The island woke...