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...Edens, returning by train, reached 10 Downing Street at 2 p.m. The Queen followed by car, arrived at Buckingham Palace at 5:20 p.m. Twenty minutes before. Eden had confronted his hurriedly assembled Cabinet ministers. Briefly and curtly, toying with a pencil in his fluttering fingers. Sir Anthony explained that his doctors declared his health was giving them cause for concern. There were very difficult times ahead, and he felt it his duty to say forthwith that his health was not good enough to sustain him through these tasks. The formal visit to Buckingham Palace followed...
...steel-rimmed glasses, polishing them with a handkerchief in deft circular strokes. It is an uncommonly sad face that is revealed, but the visitor notices the eyes, cool and piercing, the strong, shovel-like chin, and there is an impression of sincerity and power. At midnight Gomulka drops his pencil, closes the manila folder on an unfinished speech, a lone late-staying assistant throws a dark overcoat over Gomulka's thin shoulders, and he clumps out to his ZIS limousine, pausing a moment to look across the streets and roofs of Warsaw shining with frost. Not in his office...
Several years ago Everett House residents livened its sign-ins by using a colored pencil system to indicate the calibre of their dates. A yellow sign-in signified "intellectual conver-sation," green meant "walk and eat," blue indicated "movie and dancing," and red "a perfectly swell time." A purple signature meant "all this and Heaven...
...Oriental children had no idea what the Hebrew words for exercise book, pencil, eraser or ruler are. When the teacher asked, "What kind of grown-up uses a pencil?" the Europeans shouted, "Poet . . . official . . . bank clerk . . ." But all the little Orientals could think of to say was "Ben-Gurion," for they had never heard of a bank clerk or a poet. As a matter of fact, in their first six years of life, they had absorbed almost nothing. Gradually, they stopped trying to answer any questions...
Alias Sapo. In his tepid way, he tells himself little stories to while away the time. Or perhaps he writes them, since he keeps the stub of a pencil, sharpened at both ends, and a notebook in his room. One story concerns Mr. Saposcat (Sapo for short, and Homo sapiens, of course) and his wife, who worry about whether their teen-age son will pass some sort of exam. Another is about a farm family that happens to bury a mule. Even though Malone becomes Saposcat temporarily, these episodes dribble into nothingness in keeping with Beckett's conviction that...