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Coming Dictatorship. The Supreme Court had been scheduled to begin hearing arguments on Mrs. Gandhi's appeal this week. It might well have ruled in her favor, but Mrs. Gandhi was taking no chances. With most opposition members absent in protest or prison, Parliament passed legislation that rewrote the very laws under which she had been convicted. "This bill," declared Mohan Dharia, a former Cabinet Minister who was ousted last March after a dispute with Mrs. Gandhi, "is a surrender of parliamentary democracy to the coming dictatorship...
Fantasy Father. Some patients hope to punish their absent therapists by performing impulsive, even dangerous acts. Suicide attempts or threats are not uncommon. People under treatment for psychosomatic illnesses like asthma or ulcerative colitis have experienced violent flare-ups of their diseases while their psychiatrists were away. Swartz recalls that one debt-ridden patient suddenly took out a loan for a new Mercedes...
...been revealed by week's end. Observers in Lisbon therefore concluded that Gonçalves was having great difficulty in persuading any civilians, except Communists and radical leftists, to serve in a Cabinet that would wield little real power, would be dominated by the military. Certain to be absent from the Cabinet are the moderates-the Socialists and centrist Popular Democrats, who together polled nearly two-thirds of the vote in last April's Constituent Assembly election. In opposition to the M.F.A.'s recent authoritarian measures, Socialist Party Leader Mário Soares and officials...
...delicate face with a rather fragile body, and, apparently, unforgettable eyes. For all his magnetism and occasionally furious drive, Parnell was innately lazy. Between leading the Irish nationalists in Parliament and being Kitty's lover, he seems to have preferred the latter role. While her husband was conveniently absent, Parnell read Alice in Wonderland in Mrs. O'Shea's dressing room and shot out candles with an airgun in her sitting room...
Surprisingly, Sutherland leaves out some prominent - and promising -names. Where, for example, is Christopher Marlowe? Lewis Carroll is absent, not to mention his celebrated crushes on Victorian nymphets. And the book shows a predilection for minor clerics and third-rate poetasters that is a bit too donnish for 1975. Yet in the end, the musty, bibliomaniacal quality only adds to the volume's charm. Lord Chesterfield once told his son that "there are very many [books], and even very useful ones, which may be read with ad vantage by snatches and unconnectedly." This is one of them...