Word: men
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Died. Meyer Kestnbaum, 64, president of Hart Schaffner & Marx, manufacturers of men's clothing, who made his firm a model of labor-management concord and in 1955 became a special assistant (on executive management and federal-state relations) to President Eisenhower; of a heart attack; in Chicago...
...implies that the Allies would have been proved wrong, or so a cynic could argue. Hans is a case-history figure, a dedicated Nazi who never had to contend with conscience. When he is ordered to destroy an entire town, he does his part with no questions asked. Men, women and children are methodically shot down, the church burned with all who had gone there to seek sanctuary. To make his creaky plot hold together, Ustinov has Hans fall in love with a Florentine prostitute during the German retreat. When, quite out of character, he comes back to find...
INCENSE TO IDOLS, by Sylvia Ashton-Warner. What happens when a beautiful and amoral French pianist with a taste for men sets her sights on a God-filled, Bible-thundering minister in a dull provincial town. In this one, New Zealand's Sylvia Ashton-Warner triumphantly proves that her remarkable Spinster last year was no happenstance...
...CHILD BUYER, by John Hersey. Not consistently on target but full of troubling truth, this satire snaps and slashes at the antihumanist trend that sees men as tools rather than souls. The Swiftian plot concerns parents, educators and politicians who acquiesce in the actual sale of a boy genius to industry...
...book contains some of the best and some of the most shocking writing of the year. Its hollow, spineless central character leaves a trail of misery and tragedy in the wake of his weakness, a condition that, the author seems to imply, infects a great many average U.S. young men without the stamina to face the facts of life...