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...Idol Maker" by Bruce Fearing is the best of a mediocre bunch of stories. A penetrating study of an habitual young liar and his motives for lying, Fearing's story is written and concluded strikingly. His style, however, betrays a small debt to Faulkner ("Jimmy looked at the crude statuette in the palm of his hand. LIAR, LIAR, LIAR, he squeezed it, hoping it would crumble to pieces. . ."), a debt which is hardly concealed by the use of capitals. Although Fearing's story is not likely to live on in anthologies, it is still the best in a rather scant...
...Powell's civil-rights efforts, but he feared that this one, by incurring the hostility of certain Southern Congressmen, would result in the death of the whole school-construction bill. Powell's amendment would be fatal, snapped Bailey, and Powell knew it. Retorted Powell: "You are a liar." Thereupon, the scramble started...
...yelled at the Tory councilmen in her broad Lancashire accent. "We have a Corporation ratcatcher, but he goes for the wrong sort." Once she took a two-foot megaphone into the chamber to help make herself heard. Another time she called a Tory opponent a "deliberate liar," and cheerfully accepted a police escort from the chamber rather than take it back...
...Parker, had more than agreed during the hearing, crying: "Your Honor, the truth ain't in [Dolly]. Astor denies her charges. And I don't think Astor is capable of telling an intelligent lie!" In the apparent belief that Dolly also was not a very bright liar, disgusted Judge Giblin awarded her an unhandsome $75-a-week support money, called it a "$10-a-week raise" over her best paid job (as a Chicago radio-station receptionist) before her Astoriction. He added feelingly: "I'd like to kick her in the fanny...
When he sat before the cameras on Capitol Hill (TIME. Feb. 14 et seq.),False Witness Harvey Matusow appeared to enjoy his role. He babbled about his stringless Yo-Yo. eagerly called himself a liar, and caused consternation among Congressmen, who thought he should be jailed for perjury. The legal problem: Could the Government, in prosecution for perjury, clearly establish specific Matusow lies, as distinguished from his occasional truths? Last week, for Harvey Matusow, both the scene and the situation changed...