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Especially children's books. At the Christmas season hundreds of new volumes beckon, each with an appealing dust jacket, each with the promise of juvenile delight. It is only upon close examination that the fantasy turns out to be a dream of Ebenezer Scrooge: volumes shaped like rabbits, turtles-everything but books; "relevant" accounts of crime and strife; the latest data on the making of babies-but little about the meaning of love. Still, along the shelves a few items always glitter-works that will be read and reread long after the backs and covers are coated with crayon...
...stage he is a teenage hood, but a likable one, a would-be hard guy who doesn't take himself all that seriously. Much of his act is calculated to produce this image. In his neo-greaser outfit--baggy pants, a workshirt with cut-off sleeves, a leather jacket, and a floppy, oversized woolen ski cap that he periodically pulls over his eyes, throws in the air, or loses among the tangle of amp and guitar cords on stage--he looks like a kid who has some inborn style but doesn't have the time or money or desire...
Even as he lay dying, Franco made one final effort to maintain a hold on Spain's future. After announcing the dictator's demise, Arias fished a large white envelope from his jacket pocket and read what he called "Franco's last thoughts on his final day of work." The message had been written on Oct. 20 and typed up that night by his daughter Carmencita. In it, the Caudillo declared that the hour had come for him to appear before God's "unquestioned judgment." He forgave his foes, adding haughtily, "I do not want...
President Augusto Pinochet Ugarte was wearing a heavy tweed jacket, brown slacks and loafers when we met him at Edificio Diego Portales. He is a ruddy, thickset man with the look of a prosperous Swiss dairy farmer in town for the day. One had half-expected a general's braided visor, the dark glasses and cruel lips seen on all the anti-junta posters from Sweden to Berkeley. "You can see I am not so horrible," said Pinochet, "that I don't eat babies." In an anteroom outside his office, a memorable scene: 22 generals of the Chilean...
...clean football jerseys. Many at the semi-formal compare the atmosphere to that of the 1920s. "It's the same old song put to different music," one student complains. "Why couldn't I have been here six years ago when Yale and Harvard didn't mean tie and jacket?" But there are reminders that, in certain ways, more than the superficial has changed. Women, though certainly not accepted completely at Yale and Harvard, two of the bastions of male chauvinism, are not singing the song that Smith and Vassar women made their craze in the 1920s: "Was I drunk...