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Taking the same old pot from Shakespeare's rack, British Novelist Rumer Godden has cooked up a fresh batch of literature in it. As readers of her earlier novels (Black Narcissus, A Candle for St. Jude) may expect, the Godden brew is not much more than cambric tea, and though its prose has a refreshing bouquet and its flavor of idyl is cut by lemon slices of irony, the book is still a Tempest in a teapot. Author Godden gracefully recognizes the fact by calling her novel not a Tempest but A Breath...
...because they send white boys to school." As the helper of a traveling Lama, Kim becomes involved in the Great Game: Injuh. On the other team in the Great Game are the Russians, who sneak around fomenting anti-British revolts. Kim and his buddy, Errol Flynn, manage to rack up quite a few points for our side; Kim by spying and carrying messages, and Flynn by knifing, shooting, and rolling rocks down on people...
...Casner whipped home a rebound to rack up the first Belmont score midway in the first period, and Jim Riley slipped the second goal for the visitors past Dick Driscoll at 14:08. But 30 seconds later Dick Clasby moved the puck over the blue line before passing to Bray, who lashed home a 30-foot shot for the first Crimson tally...
There was mail this time. Vag took out the letters--then looked down at the wooden rack below to see if the man across the hall had gotten his Esquire yet. The brown envelope was lying on top of a magazine. It was thick and heavy, like the package ice cream came in, and it had Vag's name typed on it in bold capital letters. Vag ripped it open and looked inside. There was a book, a big book with a tasteful cover. "Career," it said. Vag put it under his arm and padded back up the stairs...
...year, that the school had tried to make room for 282 more pupils than it should, and that it had only half the desirable amount of playground space. In Los Altos, the Stanford group recommended a $1,185,408 building program-a recommendation complete down to the last bicycle rack and incinerator...