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David Rockwood's "Simon of Rhodesia" is rambling, exuberant, and fun. If there's more to it than meets the eye, I don't think we should look for it: if mention of a "blue guitar" and a Prufrock spoof (substituting "Henry Miller-O" for "Michelangelo") are supposed to plunge us into thoughts of Stevens and Eliot, the poem does not justify its allusions. But taken lightly it's pleasant, and occasionally striking, as when a guitarist "plucked a flatted fifth as one might pluck the eyeball of a kitten...
...taxes asked the Internal Revenue Service whether he could use the averaging provision that Congress enacted in 1964. Without revealing his identity, the IRS reported that the law bars averaging only for such specific items of income as bets, bequests, gifts and capital gains. Since the list fails to mention embezzled funds, ruled the IRS, embezzlers get a break-assuming, of course, that they pay taxes...
...requirement is annoying not because it insists upon exercise but because it demands adherence to rules in the same paternalistic spirit as compulsory chapel or class attendance. PT has in fact become more flexible in recent years. Still, the system is an insult and inconvenience to students, not to mention the administrative burden of keeping tabulations on each freshman and sending warnings to laggards until the end of their sophomore year...
...talks softly and easily in private conversation, smiles often, and listens courteously with apparent interest. There is an aloof informality about him, creating an air of casual righteousness. He tends to sit impassively and listen, occasionally murmuring a reply. Williams talks with amusement about himself, but at any mention of criminal law, he quickly becomes animated...
...earnings, headline readers would normally conclude that the economy is in a bad way. But 1966 is anything but normal, and last week's news of lower profits in autos and steel failed to upset the relative optimism among chart watchers in Detroit, Pittsburgh and Washington-not to mention Wall Street...