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...reasons for Zazie's serious appeal to critics are complex. For one thing, Author Queneau, a onetime surrealist deeply concerned with language, tries to close the gap between literary and spoken speech in the Zazie novel, runs words together and sometimes employs phonetic spellings. Others see in Zazie a device of savage social satire. Says New Wave Movie Director Louis (Les Amants) Malle: "She's actually the angel come to announce the destruction of Babylon." Still others have compared her to everyone from Joan of Arc (defending popular virtues against monarchists with Napoleonic delusions) to Lolita. In fact...
...finished aggressively. It was this that gave him the edge in the four television debates against Nixon. Republican Nixon had planned his campaign too carefully, with the aim of building up toward a last-minute surge. In the final week of the campaign Nixon almost certainly closed the gap between himself and Kennedy-but it was too late with too little...
...stat," to keep the world's population at a desired level. This can be done at present by what he considers comparatively painless methods, such as heavy taxation on families with more than two children. "Tomorrow, of course," says Von Foerster, "it will be more difficult, since the gap between birth rate and death rate is widening every minute...
...mayor bridged the gap between civic servant and foreign policy-conscious candidate through meetings with Harvard professors who supported his candidacy from the start. Samuel H. Beer and Mark DeWolfe Howe apparently saw in O'Connor the makings of a good liberal senator and embraced his cause before the primary. They, and others with ADA leanings, also helped advise him on policy during the heat of the campaign. From them O'Connor picked up facts and opinion that he later combined into his appeal that "everything is not rosy" and that "we must get this country-moving again...
...reached an audience of 2,000,000-many of them "people who haven't picked up a book of poetry since they left school. If a person is not a serious student, there is something about the printed page which separates him from poetry; recorded works bridge the gap. This is pretty reassuring at a time when so many are flagellating themselves with the failure of American culture...