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Friends & Aliens. In plant, Friendship University consists of two former military schools on opposite sides of Moscow. Academically, it is a five-year diet of heavily technological courses (including a first year of Russian for six hours a day). Politically, it is supposedly neuter: a benign effort to train "children of the workers" in Asia, Africa, Latin America. The lure is free transportation, free room and books, a monthly stipend of $90 (which is twice as much as Russian students get) and a $300 clothing allowance for those Moscow frosts. The Russians say 43,000 people applied this year...
...difficult to be common." But Mrs. Pat must have minded his use of dialect less than his turn for didacticism. Where she was always losing her temper, he was al ways playing the teacher. When she seemed large and unmistakably feminine, he was a touch small as well as neuter...
Indeed he had. The jury found that the choleric Cassandra had libeled Liberace in a September 1956 column strongly implying that the pianist was homosexual ("the pinnacle of Masculine, Feminine and Neuter"). It awarded damages of ?8,000 ($22,400) against Connor and the Mirror. Both filed notice of appeal...
...pianist visiting England in 1956, then upquilled. "This deadly, winking, sniggering, snuggling, chromium-plated, scent-impregnated, luminous, quivering, giggling, fruit-flavored, mincing, ice-covered heap of mother-love," fumed Connor of Wladziu Valentino Liberace. "He is the summit of sex-the pinnacle of Masculine, Feminine and Neuter. Everything that He, She or It can ever want...
...baked peasant Apollo. He is taken up by an arty, effeminate, high-minded official of a U.S. relief mission in Athens. To fiftyish Irvine Stroh, Spiro is a kind of male Liza Doolittle, whom he goes about refashioning in his own cultural image. Actually, Irvine is an emotional neuter except for the heartsickness he feels when Greek mulcts Greek. Spiro, who as an adolescent saw Communists murder his father and mother, regards Irvine's sentimentality about Greece as fatuous. In Spiro's world one cheats to live, and underdog eats underdog...