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...notion of France undone by its own benevolence is a grand comic conceit. But Raspail is not joking. A swash buckling world traveler and a columnist for France's moderately conservative Le Figaro, he prefaces his book by insisting that it is "no wild-eyed dream," then drives his argument home with a trip hammer. With nary a dissenting voice, the seagoing Indians are variously described as "Ganges scum," "starving bastards," a "stinking mob" and a "filthy mess." The only praise in the novel goes to some doomed white hunters who hap pily kill unarmed Indians. Whatever Raspail...
...Bellows' most visible innovations has been what he calls the Star's "writer in residence," a big-name author come to town for a stint as a columnist. The Star's first star: Jimmy Breslin (How the Good Guys Finally Won). He has been sitting in the city room since June 13, belching forth morale-boosting obscenities, and writing lively front-page impressions of such local scenes as an unnamed bureaucrat's failed seduction of a coworker. Breslin will be followed next month by Sportscaster Dick Schaap, and in the fall by Writer Nora Ephron...
...conservatives, the spectacle of liberals scrambling onto the high, flinty ground of frugality is more than just amusing. "They are catching up with the country," says Conservative Columnist George Will, who did his bit to elevate the public consciousness of the Coolidge era by noting that under Cal, ice cream production in the United States went...
...Earned Run Average of 3.50 is unheard of, and the relief pitching is so bad that the bullpen ought to be seized by a people's tribunal and converted into several homes for working-class families. Even the cheerleading Boston press has become exasperated with this bunch: Globe columnist Bob Ryan in a recent evaluation of the team that drew much are from the more reverent fans, wrote that relievers Regger Cleveland and Diego Segin should be placed in a small airplane with Amelia Earhart at the controls, a comment that, for all its validity, led two players to bodily...
...Rega, the shadowy confidant of Mrs. Perón. A former astrologer, López Rega is widely regarded as the country's most powerful figure. He has presided over a drastic turn toward economic austerity that has enraged millions of Argentines. As one Buenos Aires columnist put it, "Peronism has yielded to López Regaism...