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Behind this austere facade, Ackroyd finds a tormented and divided soul. Eliot shied away from attention while courting it with Machiavellian skills. Ezra Pound, another American expatriate, aptly nicknamed him "Old Possum." Pound had tried and failed to take over literary London through energy and bravado; Eliot succeeded through diffidence and self-denigration. He invited sympathy; friends who knew he was overworked were startled to see him wearing a green face powder that accentuated his cadaverous pallor. Yet he repulsed those who tried to ease his burdens; several plans to raise money that would free Eliot of his bank duties...
...USUALLY HAPPENS sometime in second grade when you see your teacher squeezing the Chatmin or checking the price on a pound of Purdue chicken; the shocking notton that Miss Teachingbody lives outside the classroom Later on, sometime before your first rendez-vous with the dermatologist, you realize that your parents don't always just read before they doze off. Somehow, though, the two notions never coalesce into the equally plausible notion that maybe Miss Teachingbody, too, does more than maybe loss her red inked papers aside and draw up the comforter before counting the sheep. Popular mythology lingers too long...
Extinction also awaits the pound note (current worth: $1.25). First issued in 1797, it is being replaced by a thick metal-alloy coin. Like the Susan B. Anthony dollar in the U.S., the heavy coin has been unpopular. But since the useful life of a paper pound is ten months, vs. 40 years for the coin, the Royal Mint expects to save $3.75 million a year. The British have already dubbed the new coin the Maggie, after Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, because it is hard, rough around the edges and, says one Member of Parliament, "pretends to be a sovereign...
...everyone is criticizing us, its probably because we are doing something wrong. "Greenfield told a crowd of 80 at Pound Hall...
Since then, the 5-11, 190-pound fullback has repeated the "F" signal only once, against Brown. But he's done an awful lot else to draw attention...