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Spies, like hats, come in different sizes and shapes. Two current cases concerning Soviet spies illustrate the two main models now in fashion: sneak-thief traitor and suave professional...
Victims of yesterday morning's Adams House incidents said that the thief had not ransacked their rooms, but had only taken valuables lying in clear view. One said that $20 had been taken from his wallet; the other reported that his watch and a billfold with $30 and a number of credit cards had been stolen...
...thief was reported to have wan- dered through as least three (C, and F and G) of Adams' nine entries. One student in F entry reported that someone tried to enter his room twice around 6 a.m. He was prevented both times because the door was locked...
...students actually woke up at about 6:15 a.m. while the thief was opening a dreser drawer. Dazed, the student asked what the youth was doing in his room. The thief replied "Is Jay--here?" Still dazed, the student mumbled "No," where upon the thief made a rapid exit from the room. Fully awake by this time, the student rushed after him, but the thief had disappeared...
...Jean-Paul Sartre who canonized Jean Genet. But it was Genet himself-sodomist, petty criminal, playwright (The Blacks)-who thought up the notion that purified evil could be a kind of sainthood. His self-nomination is announced and ritually celebrated in The Thief's Journal, written in the '40s, which is just now translated and published in the U.S. By his own lights, Genet is indeed a saint. But he is a watch-charm saint, a petty demon whose villainy is on so small a scale that its very earnestness is laughable. The crimes that this Narcissus drops...