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Skipping the Summit. To meet that deadline, other Rumanians were dickering with potential economic allies, both East and West. Doubtless to Khrushchev's chagrin, Bucharest announced the conclusion of an accord with Red China that would swap Rumanian know-how in the field of petroleum engineering for Chinese expertise in agriculture, chemistry, and food processing. At the same time, Rumania was sounding out two U.S. firms -Boeing and Douglas- about the possibility of purchasing short-haul jet transports...
...once, the Hercules took flight, its injured passenger safely aboard, doubtless unaware that he had been the object of what was probably the greatest medical rescue in recent years. In the hospital at Christchurch, surgeons decided against operating on McMullen and expressed fears that the fall back at McMurdo may leave him paralyzed for life...
Alexander Solzhenitsyn is doubtless the least favorite novelist of Russia's remaining Stalinists: he always makes them the villains. In his much-publicized first novel, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, he catalogued the horrors of a Stalinist labor camp. His second novel (after a pair of anti-Stalinist short stories) is slighter and shorter, but the target is still recognizable. The concentration camps are no longer in evidence, but the Stalinist greasy-collared thugs have only turned into white-collar bureaucrats: bald, corpulent, obtuse paper shufflers. Their opponents are ardent provincial youths who scoff at party...
...Doubtless Golding intends the reader to become involved in Jocelin's suffering, but the requirements of allegory constantly work against complexity of character. In order to generalize Jocelin's high, spiritual pre-occupations, Golding leaves out all but the formal vestiges of Christianity. Like Becket in Eliot's Murder in the Cathedral the priest uses paternal, beatific language; but Christ, salvation, and sin are carefully left out. Golding merely gives Jocelin the symptoms of faith, and leaves it to the reader to conjure up some kind of psychological reality from such cryptic sommentary as "Joy, fire, joy." Furthermore the artificial...
...which a much earthier verb appears in the line: "Gin a body kiss a body/ Need a body cry." Another ballad, John Anderson, My Jo, is known to every schoolboy as a touching tribute to the strength of marital affection in old age: its source, doubtless known to every schoolboy in all Scotland, turns out to be a ballad where the old wife mocks the decline of her old husband's sexual powers...