"I had this wonderful feeing of security, as if someone were holding an arm around my shoulder."

But gradually, our feeing began to change.

Jeffrey Fagan, a sociology professor at John Jay College who has studied teen-agers in East Harlem, said the crack trade has given youths "a different feeing about power."

In the London literary world the general feeing was that Mr. McEwan had been unfairly accused and that the controversy, if it was indeed a controversy, had been stirred up needlessly.

Ikey knew that no feeing or bribing of a Bank of England officer was possible and that once on his tail, the City police would not give up until they had him safely in the dock at the Old Bailey or, better still, posted for a hanging and locked in a condemned man's cell at Newgate.