Word: presentation
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...tourists nostalgic for the gamy days of the 1920s can find echoes of the Prohibition Era in present-day India. As the members of India's Central Prohibition Committee met last week in New Delhi, the capital around them went its merry alcoholic way. In private apartments converted into speakeasies, tired Delhi businessmen sipped beer at 10 rupees ($2) a bottle. In Connaught Circus, the heart of town, young spivs sold paper bags containing liquor, soda and ice. A man walking along with a bicycle tire over his shoulder might be on his way to fix a flat...
...American Banker, a normally undisputatious periodical that also ran her articles. "What is behind the actions of this Secretary who, every summer, seems to lapse into disharmony with the Government bond market?" When Morgenthau demanded to meet the author of these impudent words, the Banker was understandably reluctant to present him with a female financial writer hardly out of her teens. The journal politely refused, in a letter that offered no clue as to her gender. Morgenthau found out anyway, dropped the matter-and eventually turned into a Sylvia Porter...
...cousin of England's royal couple and best man at their 1947 wedding, who once sold electric heaters to earn a living; and Janet Mercedes Bryce, 23, Bermuda socialite and ex-fashion model; he for the second time, she for the first; in a London Presbyterian church. Not present: Boyhood Chum Prince Philip and Queen Elizabeth, whose role as the head of the Church of England prevented her attendance at the wedding of a divorced person, but who will send a gift anyway...
...which Don Ardito grew in power as a preacher while losing his capacity to love his fellow humans. That novel ended with an act of expiation in which the priest persuaded a German officer in World War II to execute him for acts committed by others. The present novel begins by reducing that sacrifice to irony. Perhaps as a symbolic agent for the humbling of Don Ardito's spiritual pride, the German officer stages a mock execution of the priest, complete with firing squad and blank cartridges, before shipping him off to a prison camp. In that moment...
...this account of two months of African travel early last year, he is as good as his word. His collector's eye for the gaudier human specimens and his ear for the strange sounds they utter are as sharp as ever. As for the prose: in the present sellers' market, no man writes English better...