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...withdrawing from the world and studying all the time," he says. "Studies are important, of course, but you have a duty not to withdraw from everything else." Ken Rosenberg, a second-year medical student at Tufts, is far more radical than Nathan. His Cambridge apartment is a hodgepodge of stray socks, underground newspapers and books by Herbert Marcuse. Rosenberg, uncertain whether to continue his studies, is taking next year off to think. "I want to work on understanding the medical system and see how I can break...
More significant than stray tidbits of security data, of course, are the calculations of just what kind of weapons the Russians will actually build, and in what numbers. On this crucial point, the experts seem to disagree...
...watched your thoughts stray into dreams When you're not satisfied...
...remind you of the Russian occupation of the southern half of Sakhalin Island (north of Japan) and the Kuril Islands (northeast of Japan)? These territories, formerly owned and populated by Japan, are now exclusively occupied by the Soviet Union. Japanese fishing boats that stray too close to these islands are often seized or fired upon. To the best of my knowledge, both areas are sealed off from normal tourist or business travelers...
...hotel is a vast rococo establishment. In the offseason, the staff tends to outnumber the 20-odd guests. Most of these regulars are women of 60 or more-a couple of Americans, a few English, a stray Parisian countess or two. Twice a day they gather in the Winter Dining Room, a smallish chamber in the hotel basement, which, despite lavish importation of daffodils and red tulips, is a frightful miniature of desolation. All guests have their own tables; there is almost no talk. The Nabokovs have a cook and eat here only when they have visitors...