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...amplify Sophie Sparrow's article in todays Crimson (Oct.8th) on the IRS rulings based on Thor vs. IRS: the decision by publishers to destroy overstocks or cut back printings of specialized books (or not to publish these titles at all) in order to avoid excess tax liability will work to the extreme disadvantage of faculty, students, and libraries. It will become increasingly difficult for scholars to find publishers for specialized works and for libraries to find added copies or replacements for scholarly titles required, for example, for reserve reading. In both cases, students at all levels of post-secondary study...
...last week NBC was more sparrow than peacock. Edgar H. Griffiths, chairman of parent company RCA, told stockholders at then-annual meeting that NBC would not be televising the Games "because the U.S. team is not scheduled to participate and because the President of the United States has so desired this to be the stance we take." The decision was expected, but it was sobering nonetheless. All told, the cancellation could cost NBC up to $70 million in lost profits and out-of-pocket expenses...
...that scene, the mother and son circle the stage, his blind tom-cat to her broken-winged sparrow, until Tom lowers his tail, breaks the silence in order to regain the peace of their barren thicket. A breakable pane hangs between them always, a horse-drawn past and jet-lured future caught in the same jam of traffic but still enveloped in the mist and mystery of dreams...
COLLECTED STORIES: 1939-1976 by Paul Bowles Black Sparrow; 417pages; $14 hardcover, $6 paper...
...prose, however, pares even these occurences down to an underlying lyricism. Death and starvation become poetical. There is a tension between the events described and the manner in which they are told. In one particularly moving passage, Haviaras describes eating a sparrow, and reaches an almost mystical communion with it. He writes, "And then it was my mouth embracing the sparrow. I was warmer, my throat was warmer, as if I had taken in his voice, and had been singing with it for hours...