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From blurb to backflap, P. G. never misses a Wodehouse trick. His names ("Oofy" Prosser is the villain, J. Sheringham Adair is the private eye) are felicitously goofy. His "floaters" ("I wouldn't kiss her with a ten-foot pole!") are a caution. His puns ("A fete worse than death") are outrageous. His hyperbole ("Carpets of so thick a nap that midgets would get lost in them and have to be rescued by dogs") is ingenious. His clichés ("The shot's not on the board, old dear") click with an exquisite remoteness in the modern...
...Socialists in Parliament, for whose stodgy, bourgeois caution Renard has undisguised contempt, were as aghast as anyone at Renard's disregard for orderly processes. In the debate on Eyskens' controversial bill, Socialist members made it clear they were prepared to compromise if a face-saving device could be found. "We must discuss things together," admitted Socialist ex-Premier Achille van Acker. In return, Eyskens agreed to consider a Socialist amendment. Then, exhausted, the Premier fainted in the Chamber, was led away to a sickbed before the vote on the measure brought victory to the government...
Partly Cloudy. A paternal word of caution descended from the Olympian altitude where Columnist Walter Lippmann dispenses judgment. One of the more impatient pilgrims during the campaign...
Beneath Berman's gentle, familial humor and his brilliantly controlled voice, there is the constant hint of tension. Like a sort of Everymanic-depressive, Berman offstage-and sometimes even Berman onstage-rapidly moves from patience to anger, from caution to bravado, from hilarity to gloom. Every line of his rough-weathered face ("Isn't it awful," he says, "to be 34 and look 90?") is on the defensive. He blinks, cracks his knuckles and pulls his hair as he chases worries across his mind: Will the talking records choke off his popularity in clubs? Should he order...
...single mob formed. Yet much of what they saw in Little Rock, New Orleans, Baton Rouge, Atlanta, Tuskegee and Montgomery was little better than they expected. They were heartened to meet white moderates, disheartened at their caution. "The Southern liberal is the only one who can save the South, but he's afraid of leading," said Kenyan Economist James Maina, 28. They admired the "vitality" of Negro sit-in leaders...