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...security, thrives on honesty so it is natural to assume that she once was in love with him; but there is never any hint of this. Husband number two, attentive and mild-mannered, is a model of stability; but quite inexplicably, he maliciously slays his step-child's pet duck...
...Teds' notion of sartorial splendor ranges from a caricature of Edwardian elegance to the zoot padding of a Harlem hepcat. Their hair is elaborately and expensively coiffured in long, wavy styles that range from the "D.A." (for Duck's Arse) to the "TV Roll" and the "Tony Curtis." Their jargon is a mixture of Cockney rhyming slang and U.S. jive talk in which a road is a "frog" (from the phrase frog-and-toad, which rhymes with road), a suit is a "whistle" (from whistle-and-flute), and a girl is a "bird...
Rene Char is a Frenchman with a great, hulking frame (6 ft. 3 in.) and a jaw like a duck press. By almost unanimous consent of his countrymen, he is the greatest French poet of his time. Existentialist Author Albert Camus spoke for the French intelligentsia when he saluted Char as "the great poet for whom we have been waiting." But English-reading people must take a French poetic reputation, like the credentials of ambassadors, largely on trust. In this bilingual sampler of his work, U.S. readers will be able to decide for themselves that measure for measure...
Besley put down his glasses for a moment, then picked them up again. To his surprise he saw the man crawl out of the bushes, stand up, look around furtively, duck back. Then the woman left her chair, walked to a rock about three feet from the thicket. There she sat down again...
Tanned and refreshed after a ten-day rest-and-think vacation at his Duck Island retreat, Secretary of State Dulles went back last week to Washington and to the riddle that has become his No. 1 preoccupation: What is happening in and to Soviet Russia and its empire as destalinization marches forward? Said Dulles, whose interpretations of shifting Soviet events are currently guiding fast-moving U.S. foreign policy: "The forces [for change] that are now working [in Russia] are going to prove to be irresistible...