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The sweetest Christmas music Berliners have heard in more than two years had nothing to do with Bach or Handel. It was the ugly stutter of jackhammers tearing gates in the Berlin Wall, the whine of cranes removing zigzag barriers from heavily guarded crossing points. Then, late last week, the...
Pearson's problem is that the telephone company's image is well-nigh perfect. Its charges are known to be just, equitable and, in any case, virtually incontestable; its poles are tall as trees and much neater; its only enemies are unenlightened woodpeckers, public service commissions, and the...
Paul Anka records are hard to come by in Poland, but the Poles do not consider this a blessing. In fact, they rock around the clock to all the Anka they can get from Voice of America broadcasts, and the government even invited the opiate of the masses over for...
Journeying in the country, one of Mrozek's imaginary commentators comes on a much vaunted new telegraph line. But it turns out that the poles have been stolen and the wires were never delivered. Officials, however, have replaced them with a "more modern" system-men stationed every 100 yards...
TELEPHONE POLES, by John Updike. Poems of grace, brevity, wit and wisdom by a man who was a light-versifier before he was a novelist.