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Many of the university's new leaders were picked from other city schools by former Hunter College President John J. Meng, who is now a vice president in charge of the Lincoln Center campus. In September, Fordham is opening another of its innovations: a separate experimental college in which about 30 students a year will live and study for three years with a dozen faculty members and devise their own curriculum. Father Healy calls the school-named after Cambridge Scholar Elizabeth Soule, who is joining its English faculty -an "anti-college," in which "nothing we have done...
...Lost Souls. But the bulk of Girodias' list consists of such works as Who Pushed Paula?, by "Akbar del Piombo," Houses of Joy, by "Wu Wu Meng," and Until She Screams, by "Faustino Perez." Girodias pays about $1,000 a book and chooses the pseudonyms himself-"Otherwise, they always pick something like J. Walter Thompson." He prints 5,000 copies of each standard pornographic novel in chaste green jackets labeled "The Traveler's Companion Series," and invariably sells out at 3.75 francs (75?) a copy. For bulk sales, he finds that the best markets are France...
These are stories by forgotten men. Some time in the 1620s there was published in the Chinese city of Soochow a book entitled Stories Old and New. They were collected by a literary vacuum cleaner named Feng Meng-lung, who dashed off dozens of books himself, but showed more talent in tidying up the writing of others. On one occasion, he read the play of a friend but refused to express an opinion. When the worried playwright returned later that night, Feng put him at ease: "Your play is excellent, but it is one act short. This act I have...
...Hong Kong's Dr. Pow Meng Yap found that, among schizophrenic Chinese, "customary beliefs have a strong molding influence on the clinical picture. Among our patients were four who showed clearly the syndrome of ghost possession. This is understandable in light of the tradition of ancestor worship." Dr. Yap's overall summation: secondary symptoms vary in accordance with culture, but "the primary symptoms of schizophrenia-especially the tendency to withdraw-are identical around the world, and it is thus truly a universal disease...
...descended on them at the bitter end of 1949. The first Nationalist governor to take over from the Japanese at war's end had arrived with a retinue of carpetbaggers and incompetents. In 1947 a rebellion flared which lasted three days, was bloodily put down by General Peng Meng-chi, then commander of the Nationalist garrison and now acting chief of the general staff. Thousands were killed...