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...involved in intelligence activity. Most of the 105 expelled by Britain indulged in fairly routine if clandestine and illegal information collecting, and all were under surveillance by the British. A number of the Soviets were involved in industrial espionage-ferreting out the secrets of computer electronics and of the Anglo-French Concorde supersonic jetliner and its Olympus 593 engine. "Having been allowed to operate undisturbed," suggests a U.S. intelligence expert, "they may well have grown bold and sloppy. The problem in this business is always when to pull the string...
...freshman English what it feels like to have an arm torn off by Beowulf in Hrothgar's meadhall can now relax. It hurts like the devil. "I bawl like a baby. I am slick with blood," cries Grendel in this splendid fiend's-eye view of an Anglo-Saxon epic. "My heart booms with terror." Yet as Novelist John Gardner retells the story, much of Grendel's pain is pure philosophical chagrin...
...still has so fantastic a view of U.S. affairs. But taken whimsically the novel view does help explain other puzzling developments in American life. For example, Golfer Lee Trevino's victories in the U.S., Canadian and British Opens are little more than a Mexican-American revolt against the Anglo-Saxon monopolists who have dominated the game. And the nationwide telephone strike is not a worker-boss conflict at all, but an attempt by harried parents to wrest control of the telephone from the teen-age daughters who have so long monopolized the lines...
...could compromise the basic principle of a free press. As far back as 1644, John Milton fought against prior restraint in Areopagitica, his famous protest to Parliament "for the Liberty of Unlicenced Printing." Hard-won democratic tradition insists that a free press is vital to an informed electorate: Anglo-American law has generally rejected any Government right to license a newspaper or censor its publication for any reason. William Blackstone, the great 18th century English jurist, stated the basic proposition: "The liberty of the press is indeed essential to the nature of a free state; but this consists in laying...
...arrival of the menarche is the more significant than any birthday, but in the Anglo-Saxon households it is ignored and carefully concealed from general awareness. For six months while I was waiting for my first menstruation I toted a paper bag with diapers and pins in my school satchel. When it finally came, I suffered agonies lest anyone should guess or SMELL it or anything...