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John McKnight may not achieve fame, but he has amassed enough memories and rhymes in almost 50 years of writing and collecting to fill a book — precisely what e's doing. “Tve had a love affair with language since I was three,” said McKnight, who has beén inspired by every- thing from a U.S. ambassador to a leaky toilet, “Sometimes they come to me full-blown. Five lines, just ‘beng, bang, bang,” like that. And if I didn't get toa typewriter immediately, or to a pencil, they're gone,” he said. “Sometimes I get the idea and it doesn't work out, so I write down what I've got and then it may be days, weeks, months or even years later that I finally get it polished up.” McKnight, 76, a former foreign correspondent who speaks Spanish, Italian, Portuguese and French, was working for the United States Information Agency in Rome in 1963 when Clare Boothe Luve was appointed ambassador to Italy. “Four days before she arrived, why, I was told to take over the job of doing public relations for her, too,” he said. “I had the language and I knew the correspondents.” Luce and actress Gina Lollobrigida were guests of honor at a “very dress-up affair” thrown by the foreign press association on the ambassador's first New Year's party in Italy, McKnight said. “And the two ladies appeared in extreme decolletage and they both were quite shapely up here and they appeared to be trying to outdo each other exposing their beauties.” The event inspired a rhyme: There was a young woman named Clare Who went to a party quite bare. Said she, looking harassed, I'm frightfully embarrassed; I was told only men would be there.” When the McKnight family lived in Wisconsin, the toilet was such a source of aggravation that McKnight put in limerick form directions for solving the problem: Most houses count their quarrels by the ton. The cause of our dissension is just one: We haggle and we higgle Over who forgot the jiggle And the joggle of that jigger on the john. McKnight has written several hundred of his own limericks — five-line verses that follow a set rhyme and meter — and has collected another 5,000 to 6,000, all of which he hopes to amass into a definitive volume. “This book is a combination anthology of what I consider to be the best limericks and a treatise on limericks . . . as a verse form,” he said. “Whether I'll live to finish it, I don't know, but it’s a fine way to pass the time in retirement.” Chinese visitors often taken aback by our customs VANCOUVER (CP) “When they get here, their “Would you like some more?” world has virtually been The hostess asked her dinner turned upside down,” said guest. The young man, a student from Peking on his first visit outside Canada, declined, but went home hungry and angry “of he wanted more, bi in China it is polite to refuse once os twice before accepting — and it is im- polite of the host or hostess not to keep asking,” says Helen Vannel, who recently helped guide 37 Chinese uni- versity students through a language and culture: orien- tation program that will pre- pare them for four years of study in Canada. Vannel. “In China they are part of a work unit where everything is handled for them from birth to death, down to arranging travel tickets. “They come here and they're told to go catch a bus — themselves. They've never done it before. They don't known how to do it.” Greetings are crucially im- portant to the Chinese. A po- tential vacation host for one young visitor advised the student to take a cab from the airport to the house. “The young man simply didn’t show up,” Vannel said. “He considered that anyone “Simple ordinary things, 0t but they can lead to mis- understanding and to pre judice,” said Vannel. Like the way Canadians say please and thank you all the time, said 22-year-old Xiang Bing from the Univer sity of Mian Jiaotung. “I do not have to say thank you all the time. I remember what has been done for me and some time I will repay it.” But that innocent absence of thanks can lead‘to charges of arrogance and ingratitude. The experiences a year ago of the first group of Chinese prepared to meet him at the airport — as he would unquestionably have done himself — was quite insincere and not to be trusted, These are plain and simple cultural differences that become twisted into prejudice. “In China they don't use the polite phrases that we do, such as ‘would you mind,’ and so on. So if they want something they say ‘I want that’ — and our backs go up, communication breaks down £¢ : > ¥ 7 7 et TORONTO (GP) — The view of cities as breeding ground for. Est esticlotlate take a chouer Wek 'eb “peepiy aa Wee The conventional wisdom of 15 years ago centred on the harmful effects of density and crowding. At that time, Dr. John Calhoun of the U.S, National Institute of Mental Health demonstrated that, when crowded together, mice changed their behavior: family life disintegrated, homosextality and murder proliferated. Bestselling authorities like Desmond Morris compared conditions in cities to those in over-crowded zoos and found that animal behavior in both environments took forms almost unknown in wild habitats. “I think there is not much emphasis on that today at all,” says Dr. Gerde Wekerle of the environmental studies department at York University. Dr. Claude Fischer, chairman of the sociology department at the University of California at Berkley, agrees: “The state of knowledge in 1984 suggests ail that is unfounded. “I have argued that cities have more property and vice crimes for reasons that have nothing at all to do with stress, but rather with the accumulation of wealth and the presence of organized crime.” Canadian figures on homicide show the rate of murder to be lower in cities with populations over 250,000 than in towns with less than 2,500 he says. “Some violent crime occurs while property crime is being committed. But assault and murder are over- whelmingly acts that occur between people that knew one another and even between people who make love to one another.” Clinicians cite studies of depression and alcoholism among farm wives. City living is strongly assogiated with loneliness, yet rural folk are often far more isolated. sq eee tere ai ae system may be better in the . . director of social work at Hospital. 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