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...comes in a box. "The reader," explain the instructions, "is requested to shuffle these pages like a pack of cards. The order the pages then assume will orient X's life." But who will orient the reader? For the pages are unnumbered, and X himself is never referred to except in the instructions. He does not speak. He is never described. He is an unmoved viewer of objective scenes into whose visions only the barest and rarest hints of emotion are allowed to creep-resignation at being yoked to Marianne, his mercilessly neurotic French wife; pain at the loss...
...strange visitor down from a cloudless sky over Kyoto, Japan, yesterday morning, excitement among the residents of that ancient city. It was, of course, the missing Lampoon Ibis, and its brief appearance over Japan confirmed speculation that it had been heading for the Orient when last seen above San Francisco...
During long service in Singapore, which has many more doctors and vastly better medical facilities than most Eastern countries (except Japan), Dr. Muir found enough statistics to shatter the myth of a cancer-free Utopia in the Orient. At first glance the island's cancer death rate appears to be about one-third that of the U.S.: 52 per 100,000 every year, as against 150. But Singapore's population is loaded top-heavily in the lowest age brackets: 33% under ten years old, as against 22% in the U.S. and 16% in England. Only 20% of Singapore...
...Lord is my external-internal integrative mechanism," he droned. "I shall not be deprived of gratifications for my viscerogenic hungers or my need-dispositions. He motivates me to orient myself towards a nonsocial object with effective significance. He positions me in a nondecisional situation. He maximizes my adjustment...
...accompanied by unlimited quantities of coffee. All this is enhanced by the loganberry-purple prose of the menu. Sample: "Persian Pancakes, delicate egg batter crepes rolled and filled with strawberries and peaches. Garnished with smooth rich whipped cream. As exotic as a visit to the Pearl of the Orient...