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...Reader Gable's list is partially correct. There is a fourth granddaughter still living, Princess Beatrice, daughter of Victoria's second son Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, who is married to Don Alfonso, Infante of Spain and Duke of Galliera, and lives in Sanlucar de Barrameda, Spain...
...TIME reader of some 14 years and a Democrat for about the same period, may I say I am just a bit weary of tiresome Republican readers who pester us so mercilessly with petty little anti-intellectual, xenophobic notes about Mr. Kennedy. He is a damn fine President, and everybody knows it, including his objective critics. I shall, of course, laugh all the way to the polls in '64. A landslide should prove especially delightful this time around...
...Reader Drimmer is correct. Since New York was a colony, Zenger was tried under English law, which stated that "if people should not be called to account for possessing the people with an ill opinion of the government, no government can subsist. For it is necessary for all governments that the people should have a good opinion...
...almost unvarying gait for getting through one of Miller's books is: read four pages, skip four pages. Cynics will suggest that this is because the dirty passages in the Tropics or Sexus, Nexus and Plexus come at four-page intervals. This is shallow thinking. Actually the canny reader skips through Miller not so much to concentrate on naughtiness as to avoid what comes between. What does is ill-written blather on one of two subjects: 1) the downtrodden state of artists in the U.S. (and their uptrodden bliss in Europe), and 2) how the world's troubles...
Spreading Graves. By this point the reader sees that Novelist Singer, beginning his account amid cow dung and human bestiality, has subtly led his tale away from the kind of reality that is composed of what is probable and what is worldly. As the novel continues, it is legend. Wanda dies in childbirth, and her screams reveal her as a Gentile. Jacob is arrested, but escapes and travels with his infant son to Palestine. In his old age, Jacob returns to the village where Wanda died. He finds that her bones, buried in unconsecrated ground, have been surrounded by spreading...