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...never used them. Gifted but a little balmy, Anna primes herself for school each morning with half a tumbler of brandy, frequently gets the weeps, talks persuasively to trees and flowers, has stupendous headaches in Technicolor. Wildly alive, Anna flinches only at the thought of her empty womb. She knows her enemies, "all married women," and has a pronounced allergy to "smug men using women and then cruising off and leaving them to clean...
...scratching of navels, the threat, the portentous horror, indeed, the phantasmagorical folly of appeasement, of a Munich, if you please, in the face of great decisions which may determine the future of the entire Arabian peninsula, perhaps of the whole Western World, centering in arid Iraq, cradle of civilization, womb of nationalism, cocoon of Communism's conspiratorial caprices, where the stupendous clash of incompatible ideologies generates a maelstrom of incredible tautological complexity which, if only time would allow, I would be delighted to analyze down to the most delicate detail, but with the grader's forbearance I shall...
...behind the marble-topped, crumb-lined counter, "por favor, una fumata fur meine fraulein." "Mynheer," she would always reply, smiling, and bring us another of Peter's favorite pear-filled, chocolate-covered fumates. You do not get such fumates everywhere. We would stay there in the warm pink exciting womb-like garret until the basketball jocks dropped in for pear-filled fumates, bringing with them the stench of the cages...of Harvard. Of Cambridge, that book-lined, brick-paved prison...
When Britain launched its womb-to-tomb National Health Service in 1948, it was expected to be the death of Harley Street. But many Britons did not like N.H.S., decided to join private health-insurance plans corresponding to Blue Cross and Blue Shield in the U.S. With a major part of their costs covered by insurance, they can afford to run to Harley Street at the first twinge of pain. paying private (and sometimes exorbitant) fees for the privilege...
...America's educational woes never flags. This year we turn back to the secondary schools where are sown the problems that Universities like Harvard later fall heir to, through no fault of their own. We will not stop there you may be sure. Tomorrow, kindergarten; the next day, the womb...