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Crime was supposed to disappear under Communism, and most of the East European press behaves as if it has. But last week Vecernje Novosti featured a fatal stabbing in a Serbian family feud, Politika Ekspres headlined: "READER CAPTURES DANGEROUS CRIMINAL FROM PICTURE IN OUR PAPER...
...public crackpot or private monster, or even a member of the pansy international, any of which roles might have given him an identifiable and saleable personality. He never even wrote the kind of novels in which some character would turn up again and aeain and enable the reader to say, "There he goes," as in the case of a Lieut. Henry, a Jake Barnes or a Robert Jordan, who shed a romantic backward luster on the author...
...Gadzooks, what a long way that seems to take one back!" Winston Churchill, in a letter to his mother, was musing on the long reign of Queen Victoria and her death in 1901. The reader may well say "gadzooks" about the first volume of the life of Churchill by his son Randolph, which goes back even farther. Churchill, then 26, missed Queen Victoria's funeral (he was in Winnipeg winding up a profitable lecture tour); there would not be a greater one in London until his own death 64 years later...
...average voter just isn't interested. Either the polemics are too complex to entice the reader past the first few paragraphs of newspaper accounts or issues are neatly trimmed to campaign button size. No candidate seems to have connected the issues, to see them as part of a broader problem, and no one has promised sparkling solutions...
...feverish heartbeat, it is a handy metaphor for a romantic novel. The heart that beats retreat belongs to lovely, lazy Lucile, who at 30 has been drifting gracefully through an affair with a wealthy, fiftyish fellow named Charles. She meets Antoine, a young, intense and impecunious publisher's reader, who supplements his income by living with Clare, a middle-aged Parisian hostess...