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The concept of public responsibility is not a particularly clear or easily formulated one. It embodies the realization that educated men can and should take prominent parts in the affairs of their society, as lawyers, politicians, ministers, businessmen and journalists, no less than as educators. An undergraduate training which fails...
Cordiner's carefully regulated, jam-packed life, relieved occasionally by golf (low 80s) or deep-sea fishing, is the product of a near obsession about time-the "fourth dimension in a corporation-beyond men, money and materials." When a G.E. executive recently suggested a 1963 deadline for a project...
DESERT LOVE, by Henry de Montherlant (203 pp.; Noonday; $3.50), is convincing proof that the crudest hands a fictional Frenchman can fall into are those of a French novelist. Lucien Auligny is the creation of Author Montherlant (Perish in Their Pride, Pity for Women), who at his gentlest tells nothing...
Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov. About a middle-aged monomaniac's obsession with an adolescent "nymphet." Brilliantly writ ten, by turns hilarious and horrifying, it is a strange but major work of fiction.
In the scrubby, arid eastern edge of San Fernando Valley, the Los Angeles Animal Regulation Department set out one day in 1954 to pick up a stray dog. The dog was a fine-looking animal, a sleek, year-old abandoned Doberman pinscher that had been tipping over garbage cans, stealing...