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President Nixon, in an interview published in this month's Reader's Digest, suggested that he would prefer to leave political questions for the South Vietnamese to settle after a cease-fire agreement and the completion of the release of U.S. prisoners and of the withdrawal of U.S. troops...
Again some reflection might have saved Mr. Jago from the inanity he wrote on the expression 'being present at the creation.' A reader endowed with some intelligence would have been saved the embarrassing illiteracy he exhibited. The reference was, of course, to Dean Acheson's book: Present at the Creation. As I explicitly stated to the interviewer, one felt in China that one was literally present at the creation of a new society and more presently than Acheson had in mind when that "Commissar of the Cold War"--in Ronald Steel's happy phrase--described, under that title, his role...
...Reader's Digest has never actually printed an article titled "New Hope for the Dead," but probably not for want of trying. For 50 years the Digest has taught Americans how to cope with everything from brakeman's headache to athlete's foot, and this preoccupation continues today with a series of first-person articles-told by the body's organs. One of the latest: "I Am Joe's Prostate...
...should the reader of this book. Only Amis' talent as a storyteller and stylist keeps Girl, 20 from settling into the pettiest smugness. But then, an Amis novel has always been like a naughty jaunt on a thinly iced pond. Too much moral or critical weight concentrated in any one place means breaking through to the shallows beneath the surface...
...office scenarios, Remarque appeared to be a kind of cinematic fantasy himself. He was at least as handsome as his own leading men. For a time he had been a racing driver of sorts. He collected Van Gogh, Cézanne, Renoir and Degas. What more could a reader ask of a novelist? But behind the celebrity-author lay a more substantial personality...