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Since there is no official international organization in the College, foreign students who want to get together have to find their own ways of doing so. When Hardouvelis eats at the Union, conversation at his table is constantly interrupted by Greek and Turkish students who stop by to say hello. Several foreign students have formed an international women's organization that meets weekly at Lowell House for lunch, "a purely social affair," one of the group's organizers says...
...into dangerous situations had become a tendency to portray his protaganists as, well, creeps. Like Arthur Abdul Simpson, the hero of Dirty Story, who is first introduced in The Light of Day. There he is blackmailed by a jewel ring into smuggling guns, and in turn blackmailed by the Turkish police into infiltrating the mob (a decent film, Topkapi, was made from this; Peter Ustinov made an excellent creep). Anyway, Simpson is the son of a British army man stationed in Cairo and an Egyptian woman. They are long dead and Simpson, who bears some rather sick grudges from...
...rather judicious picking-up of views and reviews, ruminations and commentary of all sorts, some speeches, an interview, a parody, and several miscellaneous vignettes. In contrast to the cover's jacket, which leads us to expect a kind of epistemological A to Z--everything "from Brazilian Indian legends and turkish sultans to symbiosis and suicide"--Updike's interests are literary. As is generally the case with reviews and criticism, it is not so much who or what is being reviewed that we read, but Updike himself...
...documents from Arthur Young & Co., Lockheed's auditors, fell into the hands of a Senate subcommittee investigating multinational corporations, and the subcommittee made them public. They revealed not only the Kodama connection but also a pervasive pattern of corporate influence buying: payments to Italian politicians, "gifts" to Turkish officials, and the pur chase of industrial secrets...
...other modes, Disch shows how terror can arise through the disturbances of ordinary life. In The Asian Shore, a young American scholar living in Istanbul keeps bumping into a bedraggled Turkish woman who seems to know him. It is, he decides at first, a simple case of mistaken identity-until some frightening events make him suspect that the mistake is his own. On a sunny morning, the brother and sister in Let Us Hasten Quickly to the Gate of Ivory try to visit their parents' graves and succumb to "subdued, also meditative horror" when they realize that they...