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...other type of reader...
...Unfortunately, (I'm rather partial to sweet little old ladies, myself) neither the staff nor the surroundings are quite so picturesque as those described by Gerry; the attendants, although seriously handicapped by the lack of a catalogue, are usually able to come up with a map which answers the reader's question. Perhaps the map curator was flustered by the appearance in the Map Room of so illustrious a figure as Gerard Mercator...
...course, applauding this broadening as an interested and sympathetic Christian reader of an avowedly Jewish magazine; at the same time, I am not, I trust, issuing a plea for ecumenical bonhomie: I do not see and would not want to see, any lessening of the magazine's commitment to Judaism...
...Post story is filled with Druryisms and some language that seems to be left over from the magazine's serialization of Fail-Safe. Leaders negotiate "in the shadow of nuclear war" and make "the live-or-die decisions when the chips are down." As cliches mount, the reader half expects the next phone call to be answered by old Scab Cooley. But instead it is McGeorge Bundy who hears a CIAman's cryptic, spy-befuddling report of the Soviet missiles in Cuba. "Those things we've been worrying about"; says the CIAman cleverly, "it looks as though...
...Harvard and editor of the five-foot shelf, Eliot ignores headlines and the cold war and makes his study nature. What he finds-from the eagle-hung abyss below Delphi to the song of the local vegetable man-delights him, and he passes on his delight to the reader in prose that is sometimes eloquent, sometimes merely latter-day inspirational. "The stars rained down their incandescent spears in sharply patterned salvos upon Mount Pentelikon and me. Staggering a little with my face uplifted, rapt in the ringing of a dark-silver gong, I felt the winds of legend sweep between...