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There is a line in Goldsmith's Retaliation which goes "When they talked of their Raphael's, Corregio's and stuff, he shifted his trumpet, and only took snuff." This Arts Festival takes snuff...
Every Friday at sundown, the telephone operators at Tel Aviv's sleekly modern Hotel Deborah close down the switchboard. Guests at writing desks in the lobby put away pens and snuff out cigarettes. Desk clerks lock up the cash register. For the Orthodox Jew, all servile work is forbidden on the Sabbath -and the rule is strictly observed at the Deborah, the world's largest strictly kosher hotel...
...departing the political scene, Macmillan remains true to his deep sense of history, and also to the promise he made two years ago at a party conference when, quoting Shakespeare, he said, "I do not intend to live after my flame lacks oil, to be the snuff of younger spirits...
...with a modest homosexual past, a nonchurchgoing Roman Catholic, but a devout snob and a glutton, a sexman and a Potterish ployman of epic pretensions. His exploits in one-upmanship take the form of a baroque conversational style, impeccable scholarship in cigars, and a collection of snuffboxes with appropriate snuff (antelope horn for the Otterburn mix). He hates progress, Protestants, Negroes, Jews, Americans, today and tomorrow. Such a man, Amis implies, has done very nicely thank-you in England, but in the U.S. he suffers cruel and unusually funny punishment for all these things...
...been feeling up to snuff since September, when his sailboat capsized, tossing him into chilly waters at Martha's Vineyard, Mass., for an hour and into a hospital with pneumonia. Now Presidential Scientific Adviser Jerome Wiesner, 48, has definitely decided to leave his White House post. But health is only part of the reason. On leave from M.I.T. for nearly three years, Wiesner is more concerned about losing touch with the academic world, and will return to the institute in his old job as professor of engineering, probably early next year. His successor: Princeton Chemist Donald F. Horning...