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...trial to every responsible person in the United States." The message: read all about the trial in the News. EICHMANN is INNOCENT, proclaimed New York's radio station WNEW in a full-page teaser ad in the New York Post and the Journal-American. Then, having hooked the reader, the ad continued in small print ". . . until proven guilty"-and announced that WNEW was sending Telford Taylor, chief prosecutor of the war crimes trials in Nürnberg, to watch the proof unfold...
Vive la Différence. In this and other tales in this short-story collection, Marcel Ayme propels the reader down Alice's rabbit hole into a strange and satirical wonderland full of the perverse intractabilities of human nature. They illustrate his conviction that art and life tug in different directions, and celebrate that tension with a gusty "Vive la différence...
...story of Emperor Nero, his favorite Poppaea, and her husband Otho. Apart from his ingenious historical allusions. Author McLaughlin, a TIME foreign news writer, offers wry observations on the follies of fanaticism, the ironies of power, and the value of the untidy solution and the unresolved crisis. Many a reader who has felt he will never understand Middle Eastern politicians may find a sudden illumination, and even a new sympathy...
...strain of trying to make every moment a madcap one. But most of the time Author Kronenberger-biographer (Marlborough's Duchess), social commentator (Company Manners), novelist (Grand Right and Left), and TIME theater critic for 23 years-keeps the repartee fresh and furiously flying. Moreover, he makes the reader accept his lunatic world on its own farcical terms-no mean achievement in an age in which written wit is closer to Saniflush than to serenity...
...slashing narrative, in which almost every conceivable human circumstance has been dramatized, but one with obvious hazards for the modern reader. The first is the scale and simplicity of the Homeric world. The whole thing is really a squabble over food, shelter and women, operating within codes of conduct mysterious to members of an industrial society, codes the like of which exist today probably only in the yet un-detribalized parts of Africa. But it is not merely the scale of life-where a man's wealth could be counted on the hoof or his quality measured in whether...