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...splendid company, though the protagonist, who calls himself Count La Ruse, is bedeviled by his author's insistence that, like the Pirates of Penzance, he is an authentic and fundamentally virtuous nobleman "who has gone wrong." His vis-a-vis, the jailer's daughter, is a salty bit of mutton, a lively dollop of trollop, when she is not made to work at it too hard. Other scoundrels are beautifully done, notably an ineffable poisoner who comes at first glance amazingly close to success in his function of representing Unashamed Ultimate Evil...
...first glance, Akbet Jaber looks like any provincial Arab town. Snack bars display turnips pickled in pink marinade. Butchers hawk fatty, flyspecked mutton hanging from great hooks in the ceilings of their stalls. On closer inspection, Akbet Jaber is a town noticeable for the absence of two things: trees and tradesmen's signs. The refugees have refused to plant trees because it might indicate a willingness to settle permanently. And the potter, the shoemaker, the shopkeeper are reluctant to advertise for fear of losing their U.N. doles and, in the process, appearing better off than Arab propagandists...
Breakfast (mutton chops) was followed by an hour-and-a-half discussion of African problems, in which they agreed-as a communiqué later put it-that there is "cause of grave concern" because the Algerian problem has not been solved. With an effervescent Bourguiba tugging at his arm, Ike went off to view Tunisia's gifts to the President: a delicately boned little Persian-Arabian gelding called Ghali (Precious) and two yearling desert gazelles. The two Presidents then drove to the nearby American cemetery, past crowds of women who hailed Ike with a birdlike warbling that sounded like...
...bright, and on the North's few tilled acres, the warming sun, shining 20 hours a day, produces dahlias as big as dinner plates, carrots a foot long. The dry air slows decay. In 1954 the crew of the Canadian icebreaker Labrador found tins of perfectly preserved mutton, figs, and Normandy pippins left on Dealy Island...
...their captive patrons. Suggestions from undergraduates are welcome--in fact, Sunday night's blueberry pancakes were suggested by a group of Lowell House members. Other indications of likes and dislikes are considered. "We found the Student Council poll very helpful in determining undergraduate preferences and tastes," Mr. Lane claims. Mutton, which received a very low rating on the poll, has appeared only rarely on menus this year; on the other hand, the more popular entrees have tended to appear with monotonous regularity...