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...kinds of taxes and fill out separate forms for each. "Those forms," he says, "make for many nights of insomnia." His uncle, Maurice Renaud, who runs an appliance shop down the street, must fill out only three sets of forms but is much more outspoken. "De Gaulle is a liar," he says. "He's too expensive, he has delusions of grandeur. I'm ready to kick him out. I'm going to vote no, and it will be the first time." A Briare attorney, a Gaullist, plans to vote against the referendum because he believes "it would...
...novelist John Dos Passes found out when he visibly and unflatteringly portrayed Hemingway in his novel Chosen Country. Hemingway spoke lividly of training his dogs and cats to "attack one-eyed Portuguese bastards." According to Baker, he called Scott Fitzgerald, who revered him, "a rummy and a liar with the inbred talent of a dishonest and easily frightened angel." Thomas Wolfe he rated as "a one-book glandular giant with the guts of three mice." Once he provoked a fight in a hotel dining room with William Saroyan, and when the poet Wallace Stevens, 20 years his senior, visited...
...ELECTION THE BOARD OF OVERSEERS, AND WOULD LIKE TO WIN, AND AM SUFFICIENTLY A POLITICIAN TO RECOGNIZE THAT CASTIGATING YOUR ACTION IN CALLING THE POLICE WILL NOT NECESSARILY GAIN ME ALL THE VOTES OF OLD LAUMNI, NONE-THE-LESS, I RUSH HAPPILY TO SAY THAT YOU ARE CONCEIVABLY A LIAR IN PRETENDING HASTE AND NIGHTSTICKS WERE NECESSARY TO SOLVE AN EXPLOSIVE SITUATION FOR WHICH RECENT HISTORY MIGHT HAVE PREPARED YOU WITH MANY AN ALTERNATIVE, SINCE YOUR PHOTOGRAPHS REVEAL YOU AS INCONTESTABLY CLOSE-MOUNTED, I AM SIMULTANEOUSLY RELEASING THE TEXT OF THIS TELEGRAM TO THE HARVARD CRIMSON FOR PUBLICATION, YOURS...
...value lies in the fact that it allows them to conduct research under optimum conditions. The city and the other group members are never far away if they want advice or old friends; most of the Indians with whom students work have been visited before and are fami- liar with the procedure of observation and interviewing. The Project now enjoys a history of good relations with the Indian community and has won much confidence and cooperation, so that researchers can be settled and working on their projects after only two or three days in the field...
...author, who in the past has dealt fondly and ruefully with flawed and crummy people (Billy Liar, Jubb), starts in an ordinary way-burying his hero to the neck in an anthill of character defects. What is unusual is that Waterhouse then proceeds to spread a blanket, unpack a box lunch, and invite the reader to watch the fun. William, the hero, is a 35-year-old Londoner of such low spiritual energy that he cannot be said to have anything so definite as a desire. But when he remembers to be wistful, he thinks vaguely that it would...