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...More muses: "What I want is just to figure out what I've hit on. Some day a man will walk into my office as ghost or beast or ghost-beast and walk out as a man, which is to say sovereign wanderer, lordly exile, worker and waiter and watcher." Underlying the satire is a rueful equanimity and a lingering hope, one sometimes found in both Catholics and Southerners, that there may be a point to the working and watching, that there may be one day a kingdom for the exile...
...heat, says: "We get our water by tank truck from a military desalination plant down the road. If the tanker breaks down, we're in trouble." Even so, Shapiro intends to settle permanently in Sharm el Sheikh. So do many of his staff. When I asked my waiter what was missing, he thought, smiled and answered: "Pollution...
Stephen Gilman, professor of Romance Languages; Roy Glauber, professor of Physics; Natuan Grazer, professor of Education and Social Structure; Peter Goureviten, assistant professor of Government; James R. Higntower, professor of Chinese Literature; Albert O. ??man, ??der Professor of Political Economy; Stanley Hoffman, professor of Government; Waiter Kaiser, professor of Comparative Literature and English; Harry P. Kerr, professor of Public Speaking; Martin Kilson, professor of Government; Davia C. Kmsey, assistant professor of Education; Ernst Kitzinger, Porter University Professor; Klaus-Friedrich Koch, assistant professor of Social Anthropology; Rustam Z. Kothavala, director, Harvard Science Center, lecturer on Geology; Harry Levin, Babbitt Professor...
Farragan is a deeper, more generous creation than Principato, which came out just eight months ago. The author's next book, too, will be about rich, middle-aged man under siege, a subject that McHale researched during several summers as a waiter in the Poconos. He grew up in Scranton, Pa., the eldest of six children, and attended Jesuit schools and Temple University. Now he lives in Vermont, which he calls "the last frontier in the east." He intends to keep up the writing pace as long as he has something to say, and he is fatalistic about...
...Cairo last week, barely a day remained before the ceasefire between his country and Israel was due to expire. He ended the suspense quickly. As long as there was "genuine progress" toward peace, he said Egypt would "abstain from firing." On hearing the news from Cairo, an Arab waiter in an East Jerusalem hotel burst into the bar and happily told his patrons (mostly Israelis): "We've got at least thirty more days...