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...books which reveal the vast differences within today's children's literature are Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie and Loving the Earth: A Sacred Landscape Book for Children written by Fredric Lehrman, with illustrations by Lisa Tune. The first is notable for the success Rushdie achives in a difficult area. The second book is remarkably bad; irritating and uninspired, Loving the Earth's only redeeming quality is its illustration...
...Lorna, I'm terribly keen on you"? At times, with their perfumed dissolutes and frustrated shrinks, the stories read like crude distillations of the Anglo-Indo-American vignettes of screenwriter-novelist Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, or even like bite-size appetizers for the full-course feast of a Salman Rushdie novel...
...intensified by the precocious self-possession of its students, who seem to have nothing teenage about them, maturing overnight from short pants into three-piece suits. Recent issues of the Eton College Chronicle, the boys' magazine, feature long articles on perestroika, detailed surveys of Malawi, rhymed quatrains about Salman Rushdie. Boys put on plays by Ken Kesey and Lope de Vega, flock to a newly formed Green Society, gather to discuss the biological causes of altruism. They also enjoy unusual access to the world: in the midst of Conservative Party turmoil, Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd, a devoted Old Etonian remembered...
...women of undermining Saudi morality and, worst of all, showing signs of "American secularism." The women's names, phone numbers and addresses were printed and distributed. Menacing telephone calls followed. Says a friend of one of the women: "They are afraid that they are going to end up like Salman Rushdie...
Some of the women who tried to break the ban on driving had petitioned Riyadh's governor, Prince Salman, in advance. The women were advised to cancel the idea or at least wait a few months. "I agree with what they tried to do," says a highly placed Saudi, "but their timing was terrible." Now it appears that the timing for any major social changes may not be right for years...