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...James) Graham Parsons, 53, to Sweden. One of the State Department's most knowledgeable Far Eastern experts, Yaleman "Jeff" Parsons has been Assistant Secretary for Far Eastern Affairs since 1959, was architect of the Eisenhower Administration Laos policy, which is now being abandoned in favor of accepting a neutralist regime in Laos. Parsons hoped for Tokyo but got faraway Stockholm instead...
Powerful Magic. Greene's hero is Querry, a famous architect, celebrated-like Greene himself -as a major Roman Catholic artist. He is rich, successful, greatly loved ("fame is a powerful aphrodisiac''), and he is also dead. He has "had it." The act of love and the creation of beautiful buildings have become empty of meaning. Baldly stated, this spiritual situation is hard to comprehend. But by means of Greene's great novelistic art, the powerful magic of a born and practiced fabulist, the reader is compelled to understand and share such desiccation of soul. As British...
Parkinson's Law. At first, the world intrudes through a copy of TIME, which has drifted up the Congo and which carries a cover story on the great architect.* Thus Querry, seeking nothing but anonymity, is doomed to the martyrdom of the fame he has repudiated. Later, the outside world in its total corruption is personified, as it has been so often before in novels, by a British popular journalist, and ex-London Timesman Greene must be presumed to know his type faces. Montagu Parkinson is in the Congo "for the riot," but a rumor about Querry...
...Radcliffe off-campus houses on Garden St. will eventually be replaced with a large dormitory housing approximately 340 girls, a College architect told a group of students and deans yesterday...
Please permit me as the architect for the project, a resident of Cambridge, and a Harvard alumnus not disinterested in Harvard's welfare, to point out some of the facts involved...