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...stood up to Hitler before & after 1933. From Lorenz' father, wife and friends, Cooper learns that Lorenz too had to fight the unheroic in himself. He had become a hero, a concentration-camp veteran, because he had been afraid not to be one. Cooper's search for Lorenz, against orders from his superiors, becomes the major action of the book. "If I've come this far . . . it's because I'm obsessed with curiosity. I am letting the history of Adam Lorenz tell me just how I would have behaved myself in the Third Reich...
...once had a good medical school (which is making a comeback) and long supported a distinguished literary magazine, the Southern Review. Ever since the killing of Patron Huey Long, L.S.U. has tried to get out from under a reputation for control by politicians. Last week, after a five-month search, L.S.U.'s Board of Supervisors picked a new president. They had deliberately gone outside the state to find...
...plainclothesman. He walked straight into the revolver of the château's owner, Count Edmé de Vulpian. Into the fray, toting Tommy guns, jumped other secret policemen who had been waiting in the shadows that enveloped the castle. Count Vulpian lowered his revolver and surrendered. A search of his château yielded the blue-bound revolutionary "Plan Bleu." It was found where any reader of conspiratorial fiction knew it would be-in the fireplace...
...self-righteous, whose soul search does not reveal anything worth confessing, Father Wilson has prepared a 20-page probe. If anyone can answer all the questions without finding something to own up to, Father Wilson thinks that he must be either "a saint or spiritually purblind." Sample questions...
...addressed to a pigeon named Grey-Flight, Muc, the pigeon, a dog and a cat are the chief characters in Madeleine Couppey's beautiful allegory, which has already gone into 58 editions in France. All the animals in Rumor in the Forest experience inner torture in their common search for the ultimate meaning of life. About them, the trees of the dense forest look on with understanding, and are themselves capable of being hurt and forgiving. Skeptical readers who doubt that a moving tale of love, renunciation and death can be brought off as an animal story had better...