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TREMOR OF INTENT, by Anthony Burgess. This lively tale of espionage is only trompe I'oeil; behind it flows the broad seriocomic vein that is the source of all of Burgess...
...this vein, Samuels and Schlesinger request that the Placement Office attempt to get more summer employment for first-year students. But at the same time, they demand the exclusion from Placement Office facilities of any law firm that discriminate in its hiring...
Latest First. What he struck was a deeply embedded vein of indifference. The first hint came when he announced auditions for the chorus of the new Dallas Civic Opera; instead of the expected stampede, only 32 singers showed up, and most of them were shower-room Carusos. The real blow, though, was his fund-raising gala, featuring Maria Callas. It sold only 30% of the 4,100 seats in the State Fair Music Hall. On the following night, the company opened with an excellent performance of Rossini's L'Italiana in Algeri-and got much the same...
Calming & Relaxing. Awakened just after 5 a.m., the President was soon stretched out on a mobile bed. Into an arm vein, the Mayo Clinic's Dr. Edward P. Didier and an assistant injected a muscle relaxant and a pre-anesthesia dose of a barbiturate to serve both as a mild analgesic and a calming agent...
...empty minutes, dredged up the results of preelection polls to make a far-out analogy between California's New Leftists who voted for Reagan and the German Leftists of the 1930s who voted for Hitler on the theory that he would soon collapse. In a more jocular vein, MacNeil explained that Democrat George Mahoney had lost in his bid to become Maryland's Governor because such traditional Maryland Democratic voters as David Brinkley had turned against their party...