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...campus girls to eat the dinner for which they pay. With the proposed choice between lunch and dinner, officials would have to prepare enough food to accommodate the girls at either meal. In addition, Mrs. Bunting suggested that the new flexibility might encourage girls who normally skip dinner in the dorm to eat lunch there instead...
What happened after that has never been very clear, but Ebtehaj found himself clapped into jail for seven months, and only after protests from his friends abroad was he released on a bond. It was some bond: a whopping $140 million signed guarantee that Ebtehaj would not skip Teheran. Most of the collateral was contributed by sympathetic Iranians in the form of land deeds, securities and cash pledges...
Readers who want to enjoy the many fascinating parts of this book are urged to approach the Disenchanted Island selectively. Read the beginnings of chapters, skip when it becomes boring, and read the end. Always read the long series of footnotes Spears has placed at the end of each section: they tell more about Auden than many of the chapters do. They indicate, for example, whom he travelled with, what he read, where he went, and whom he wrote to. The chronologies of Auden's life are equally intriguing: One cryptic note on page 76 reads "Earlier in the year...
...fingers sounded the familiar oo-bla-dee and ba-ree-bop, the old phrases rang like new coinage. Which was only right, since Mary Lou minted them first. In the old days when she played "zombie music" and early bop, her style was constantly in transition, constantly a skip ahead of jazz. Now, "playing in the tradition" is a high ideology with her, and any echo of the avant-garde enrages her. "Have you heard these 'freedom' players?"* she asks, lips curling in disgust. "They're making people sick all over town...
...Justice Department, which moved quickly in the fear that DeAngelis might try to skip the country, is not alone in its desire to get to the bottom of DeAngelis' tangled affairs. Senator John L. McClellan, who never minds working in the glare of headlines, has launched a "quiet study" to see whether his investigative committee should look in. Convinced that any new controls by Washington would smother trading, the nation's commodity exchanges have set up committees to stiffen margin requirements and trading rules. Nonetheless, other indictments are expected to follow the one handed down last week...