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...frequently renewing themselves." This renewal can be accomplished by a "blow from without," by which Machiavelli clearly means a foreign attack or invasion. But the same effect, he says, can be achieved by "internal occurrences" that test the national system of laws. Machiavelli's point -and Wolin's-is that such blows can turn out to be beneficial, providing they recall and restore the republic to its first principles and ideals...
Huge Surge. Pakistan's air force also flies Mirages, and its army-like India's-is partially supplied with French weapons (though the U.S. has been Pakistan's principal arms supplier, and the Soviet Union is India's). In Africa, where France supplies 13 of its 15 former colonies, as well as several other states, the duration of the Nigerian civil war can probably be attributed as much to the steady flow of French weaponry to breakaway Biafra as to the fighting spirit of the Ibos. In Latin America, France has sold arms to nine nations...
...that Gay created, while Kurt Weill provided a tart and tangy score that is one of the marvels of the musical theater. The juice of art and life, however, flows richly enough through the original Beggar's Opera. The dominant motif-Gay's as well as Brecht's-is that money is thicker than blood. By now, the characters are classic, and they all live up to their names: Peachum (Gordon Cornell), the informer and fence; Lockit (Ralston Hill), the venal jailer of Newgate; and MacHeath (Timothy Jerome), the saucy highwayman who can down a wench...
Comparisons with The Catcher in the Rye are inevitable, simply because all novels about youth in flight are still measured against Salinger's. But what such a weighing shows is chiefly that Yglesias' tone-far more detached than Salinger's-is completely his own and that Holden Caulfield would now be pushing 40. Salinger's novel is a wholly mature work. Yglesias is still capable of childish sentences. But his is a superior novel, without regard to the age of its author. In the end, when Raul has dropped out of school for good...
Miss Allingham's strength -and her husband's-is clear, serviceable prose, less careless than Agatha Christie's and less precious than Dorothy Sayers'. It must be said, though, that Mr. Campion began life in The Black Dudley Murder (1928) in unblushing imitation of Sayers' rococo creation, Lord Peter Wimsey. Both were lean, languid young noblemen who spoke in the high whine that Waugh classified as the British upper class baying for broken glass. Both concealed great skill and cunning behind a facade of graceful, gratuitous vagueness...