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...sought out John Merrick to study his deformities and to present him to a conference of physicians as "the most perverted and degraded form of a human being" he has ever seen. Because Merrick will only grunt and growl, Treves takes him for an imbecile: "For his own sake, I pray to God he's an idiot." But the doctor soon discovers that his specimen is not only intelligent, but well-read and inquisitive, a sensitive young man painfully aware of his condition. Refusing to return him to his sideshow master, Treves sets out to educate the incurable Elephant...
...gave new meaning to the phrase "no-frills flying." Jaromir Wagner, a 41-year-old West German car dealer, risked his life on a twelve-day, seven-stop journey from his homeland to the U.S.-without heat, seat, coffee, tea or milk. For the sake of what he called "the thrill" and at a cost of $325,000, Wagner made the trip strapped between the wings of a small, twin-engine plane, where he endured temperatures as low as 22° below zero. "I felt as though I was wearing a bathing suit," he said afterward. He was, in fact...
...satisfied with their seats? O.K. No talking, no smoking, no knitting, no newspaper reading, no sleeping, and for God's sake take notes." So began Literature 311-312 at Cornell in the '50s, Professor Nabokov presiding. Teaching was of necessity Nabokov's livelihood in those pre-Lolita days, and he took to it as he took to all the shifting fortunes of his long émigré life: with energy, flair and an unfailing relish for the ironies of the situation. Somewhere in one of those classes, as Nabokov might have guessed, was at least one future...
...poets, especially those who share Milosz's state of spiritual and political exile. Says fellow Pole Jerzy Kosinski: "He remains very Slavic in his idiom and main obsession: What is the essence of life? Why are we here? It is not how to live, but why, for the sake of what?" Emigré Poet Joseph Brodsky adds: "What this poet preaches is an awfully sober version of Stoicism which does not ignore reality, however absurd and horrendous...
...supported George Bush in the primary and helped him defeat Reagan 2 to 1. Reagan still causes uneasiness among many Republican regulars, who are certainly ready for a change in Washington but not too much of one. Rock the boat, to be sure, but for heaven's sake don't capsize it. Michigan is one state where Anderson may be hurting Reagan more than Carter because of the defection of liberal Republicans. Milliken, however, is now vigorously campaigning for Reagan because Bush is on the ticket, and may tip the balance in another too-close-to-call state...