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Snow or not, room or not, Burgess tries to write at least 1,000 words a day. His deepest regret is that he is already 54; he has at least 20 ideas for novels. Among them is a story about a Maugham-like novelist writing a book about a wicked Pope who ruined the church. The wicked Pope is, of all people, John XXIII. Burgess, who comes of a North England family that has been Catholic for centuries, regards John as a historic disaster. An outspoken anti-ecumenist, he thinks John's popularizing destroyed "the intellectual integrity and dignity...
Although the Great Southern experience left Ryder "more sober and more thoughtful," it did not keep him from experimenting. He considers himself something of a trucking consultant and has even endowed a chair at the University of Miami for transportation studies -partly to ease his own regret at not having had a college education. The Ryder corporation operates a 300-depot maintenance system that services other fleet owners as well as its own trucks, and has an engineering consulting division that advises truck buyers on their design needs and markets its own computer system. Last week Ryder and a consortium...
While a secretary sprayed the room with a lemon-scented aerosol bomb, police and firemen ejected the intruders. Outside the palace, a Liège farmer, who felt that the ministers had not been sufficiently cowed, lamented: "My only regret is that we didn't bring along a bull...
...rare moment of enthusiasm for Europe and Britain's possible role in the Common Market, the Labor government decided to go decimal. Both the pound and the penny would be preserved. "It would be a matter of regret," said then Chancellor of the Exchequer James Callaghan, "if such expressions as 'Pennywise, pound-foolish' and 'Look after the pennies and the pounds will look after themselves' were to lose their meaning." But instead of 240 pennies, the pound would consist of 100 new pennies...
...this moment, however, this regret and outrage lack channels for its full expression. In the best of all possible worlds it would no doubt be possible to organize a tribunal to assess the burden of guilt borne by so many professional political scientists for the criminal war in Southeast Asia and to punish them accordingly...