Word: friendlies
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Vindication. Beyond reminding questioners that both men must be presumed innocent unless and until they are convicted, Speaker McCormack has thus far declined comment on the plight of his former assistant and friend. He has also strongly denied knowledge of the pair's activities or any wrongdoing on his own part, and has received support from Morgenthau, who took care last week to emphasize that the Speaker was not a subject of his recent investigation. Still, McCormack feels that his image has been tarnished and plans to seek vindication through re-election as a Congressman and as Speaker...
Julian Mitchell's tricky new novel is about two sensitive, well-educated Englishmen who have widely varying difficulties trying to establish diplomatic relations with their demons and angels. For Charles Humphries, the attempt results in apathy and a self-destructive critical reflex. For Charles' oldest and dearest friend, the process produces The Undiscovered Country itself. The narrator of the novel is not only called Julian Mitchell but bears his real-life social, academic and professional credentials as well...
Astute Broker. Character Mitchell comments knowingly on his friend's work, which is not surprising because Author Mitchell actually wrote it. Fortunately, he makes no literary claims for it. Instead, the novel is seen as a pathology report on Charles' spiritual trouble, which appears to be a kind of moral onanism. Charles' outrage proves wasteful and leads only to death; similarly, his attack on a corrupt and hypocritical world ends up only satirizing and thus destroying itself...
...tell him what to expect. There is no initial kick or jolt from grass, they say, and "there is no way you are 'supposed' to feel." But among the feelings that may happen are a slow general euphoria, the discovery that everything is funny (even "your friend's teeth are a riot"), and a minute fascination with whatever little thing the smoker happens to be doing. Occasionally smokers are affected by a sense of paranoia, an inability to remember in the middle of a sentence what it was they were talking about, as well as loss...
...they also spend more money," my friend observed...