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Last week, with a tape recorder whirring away under his desk, Knight called Alderman on the carpet. Said Knight, later: "I told him that everything said was being recorded, and that the record would show that what he had done was not in the interests of the government...
Then Ike is out of his chair, ready with an answer. He paces the deep-piled green carpet, stopping occasionally to cock his head at the ceiling to get a grasp on his thoughts. As he talks, he comes back to his desk, stands at an easy parade rest, plunging one hand into a pocket, or crossing and uncrossing his arms. His gestures have no oratorical flair, and betray no nervousness. Ike does not squirm or fidget. He moves smoothly, as an athlete moves...
...commercial symbols . . . and rites are rapidly replacing the church, the candles and the Psalms. These are the plush carpet, the exalted open casket, the heavily scented banks of funeral flowers, the dim, indirect light, distant recorded syrupy music replete with chimes and vox humana, all centered in the new dominant architecture of almost every community, the funeral home and chapel...
Starvation or Prostitution. Mittelholzer spends half his novel building up this portrait of a girl who, thanks to her wealthy father, can keep what company she pleases. Then, with a bang, he pulls the carpet out from under his heroine. Father Russell is murdered. The jolly businessmen who laughed around his bridge table vanish into thin air-save for one who stays around long enough to pop the remains of Daddy's capital into his own pocket. By the end of the novel, Sylvia has sunk to a stratum from which death is the only escape, where crackers...
Gruber's disclosures were greeted with Socialist cheers, but he seemed surprised and hurt when his own party summoned him on the carpet. "I had by no means the intention," he recanted, "of accusing political persons of the People's Party . . . of uncertain or unpatriotic attitudes." But it was too late. The party made Gruber resign the Foreign Ministry, which he has held since war's end. His probable successor: former Chancellor Figl, Austria's most beloved politician...