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...wrote in the hesitant manner of one who, "anxious to avoid appearing gauche or conspicuous, may sometimes be caught glancing furtively round to make sure that he is about to use the right knife and fork." Edward FitzGerald, the reclusive translator of The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, waved away a dubious bowl of pudding at his wedding breakfast with the exclamation, "Ugh! Congealed bridesmaid!" Ireland is found "so melancholy, so full of the ghosts of feuds and famines, the clouds fly low, the trees sag under the incessant rain, and the very air seems...
When the tourists arrive, head the other way. That is the motto of British Author Graham Greene, who flees his home in Antibes, France, each summer for less crowded haunts. On his third trip to Panama, a favorite spot, Greene visited Panamanian Chief of State Omar Torrijos. "I have not even concluded whether I have done good or bad," Torrijos told his guest. "It's like going to the gas station. You pay and the pump returns to zero. Every time I awake I am back to zero...
...Wine Omar Khayyam may have to be rewritten. For the Jug of Wine that went with the Loaf of Bread-and Thou, substitute Bag (for the Jug, that is). Instead of bottling their vintages in conventional glass, nearly two dozen California wine makers, including Almaden and Geyser Peak, are putting up bulk wines in four-ply plastic film bags equipped with patented on-off spout valves. Sometimes cunningly encased in cardboard kegs, the bags are cheaper than bottles, as well as easier to ship and store. The pioneering Scholle Corp. of Northlake, Ill., which claims that its bags keep wine...
...also charged that since 1971 Page executives have made other questionable payments of more than $2.5 million in connection with $60 million in aircraft sales abroad, mostly involving Gulfstreams. According to the SEC, Page gave $200,000 to President Albert-Bernard ("Omar") Bongo of Gabon; paid $412,000 to an organization whose secretary was Timothee Ahoua, Ivory Coast Ambassador to the U.S.; passed $900,000 to an outfit controlled by Datuk Harris Salleh, at that time Minister of Industrial Development of the Malaysian state of Sabah; and gave a Cadillac convertible to Uganda's dictator, Idi Amin Dada...
...complementary-but contradictory -measure provided that the "sovereignty of every African country gives it the right to appeal to any other country for help if its security and independence are threatened." In an oblique criticism of those cross-purposes proposals, Gabonese President Albert-Bernard ("Omar") Bongo, the OAU's outgoing chairman, ruefully noted: "We have the habit of talking without saying anything [and of] making too many resolutions...