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Italians can brew a political tempest in the tiniest espresso...
...exhausted postwar world swallowed Spengler's gloomy brew as a confirming, almost a soothing draught. What matter if the drink were hemlock? At least the worst was known. The Decline of the West, despite its Germanic prolixities, sold more than 100,000 copies in the first eight years, mostly in Germany. Spengler was the talk of every campus...
...Hard Life, Flann O'Brien, a lionized Dublin novelist, columnist and licensed literary legpuller, has served all this brew with a difference. In place of the spice of hot rage (at Irish meanness) or the sticky sauce of garrulous sentiment (about Irish foible) that so often dress up the dish, he uses deadpan understatement...
...hope it thrives"), but has been more and more bothered by its founder's antics. Last April Buckley said in print that there were "grave differences" between his own conservative creed and that of retired Taffy-Puller Welch. Besides, last week's Review editorial was bound to brew another of the ideological storms on which Buckley and the Review seem to thrive...
...bright spot of the evening was the spirited if not polished performance of The Mercenaries--a Winthrop House folk song trio. Their best number, a spoof on rock and roll culture entitled "Bitter Brew" was rather popular with the suave set upstairs, but the twisting kats in the basement below were rather unamused at this attack on some of their basic values...