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...World ambiguities of Europe and pluckily gone under. In her own words, Shirley is "warm, generous, brave even." She is also sloppy, tactless, catty, softhearted, scatterbrained, a compulsive quoter out of context and snooper in her husband's desk drawers, gigantically absentminded, passably promiscuous, desperately lonely, guilt-ridden, polyglot, and sympathetically drawn to other people's troubles. She does the wrong thing every chance she gets, and St. Joseph (her code word for fate) never fails to give her another chance. Yet, unlike Daisy, she does not go under...
...Since Algeria, the colonial force has shrunk from 15,000 to 7,500 men, and it is not even as foreign as it used to be: though more than 25% of the legion are still German, an estimated 20% are French, while Italians, Spaniards, Yugoslavs and others form a polyglot minority. After nine long years of dull garrison duty in Corsica, New Caledonia and France, all that matters to the 1,000 legionnaires in Chad is that they are at war once again. TIME Correspondent James Wilde spent five days in the field with them. His report...
...being a writer," he has come to academic life and to eminence the long way round. He was born in Lachine, Quebec, an industrial suburb of Montreal, in 1915. just two years after his Russian parents emigrated from St. Petersburg. (He still speaks fluent French.) "It was a polyglot village of Sicilians, Ukrainians, Scots, Croats and Indians," Bellow remembers. "I had an Iroquois nurse who chewed meat before feeding it to me. I'm sure it did me good...
Still within the urban parish mold ?but hardly in the traditional church building?is Chicago's Circle Church, which meets in a Teamsters hall. Its founder, David Mains, 33, was a vaguely dissatisfied Baptist minister trying to start a new parish in a polyglot Chicago neighborhood when he chanced to stop by the union hall. "Any time you want to start a church," the local's secretary-treasurer told him, "you can meet here for free. What this neighborhood needs is another goddam Protestant church." Mains' church is Protestant?it has since affiliated with the Evangelical Free Church...
...thou sands each night around long rows of food stalls throughout the city. Many were there for their evening meal of satay (meat roasted on a short skewer of cane and dipped in curry sauce). Others stopped off on their way home for a bowl of soup. In the polyglot capital of Malaysia, this nightly relaxation attracted not only Malays but also citizens of the large Chinese minority and the smaller Indian and Pakistani groups...