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CANTERBURY TALES. Four of Geoffrey Chaucer's tales are told in this musical import from London. Unfortunately, the Chaucerian spirit is largely missing. Sex is treated as a commodity and faith as an epilogue, in the manner of a Cecil B. De-Mille devotional epic...
...defensive-missile business, we can get out of it very quickly," Rogers said. That reasoning only added evidence to suggest that Nixon was proceeding with the ABM partly to have it as a handy bar gaining point. Rogers at first denied that it would ever be used in that manner, which seemed logical enough if its proposed deployment was not deemed threatening enough by the Russians to stall the arms talks in the first place. When Committee Chairman William Fulbright raised the question a second time, Rogers admitted that the ABM might, after all, prove "useful" in bargaining. Fulbright...
...manner of Janis Paige in the old Broadway smash, Pajama Game, U.S. bankers are lamenting the discovery that a 71% interest rate "doesn't mean a helluva lot." Pinched for lendable funds by Washington's fight against inflation, the nation's major banks last week raised the cost of borrowing to that level-the fourth rise in little more than three months. The prime rate, the interest that banks charge their best corporate customers, went up a full i% from the 7% rate set only last January. Although the new rate was a historic peak, neither businessmen...
...period covered in Military Philosophers, the ninth of the series, is roughly from 1942 to V-E day, an era that would seem to call for the verbal equivalent of massed bands, with effects by real cannon in the manner of Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture. Though Powell's narration continues pianissimo, the result is far from flat. His prose is a percussion instrument, delicate but forceful because precise...
Powell's human comedy exploits to the full the incongruities of manner and matter inherent in his jumble of diverse characters, classes and accents. It seems surprising that even the British Empire could have converted such a collection of civilian highbrows, esthetes and scholars to effective military ends. Outside Whitehall, bombs are succeeded by rockets. The London toll of death and damage mounts. Throughout there is a sharp impression that what Powell refers to as "our incurable national levity" is a strong clue to the British survival. It is a specific against too much hope, and thus against bitterness...