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Flow of Words. The author's heroine is shatteringly beautiful, amoral, narcotically charming, and men queue up to destroy themselves for her. Such a description might come from any dust jacket, but Novelist Ashton-Warner's portrait is all but unique. Germaine de Beauvais. a young Parisian concert...
Status Eking. Author Ham laces the willful charm of his love story with a carbonated commentary on suburbanitis, with its worship of errant gadgets (" 'Patent applied for' but never to be granted, I trust"), anxious affluence ("We had enough trouble living 10% over our income"), status eking ("If...
The U.S. replied with a bristling note rejecting as a "willful misinterpretation and misstatement of fact" Khrushchev's assertion that the U.S. plane had been shot down inside Soviet airspace. "At no time was the plane closer to Soviet land territory than about 30 miles," said the U.S. But...
In answer to Reader Ethel R. Mirick's question of May 16 [about whether it is bigotry to fear the Roman Catholic hierarchy as much as the Kremlin]: not bigotry, Mrs. Mirick, just woeful-or willful-ignorance.
New Captives. The 1,000-odd Frenchmen who are still living in Guinea are harassed at every turn. Some have been jailed for failing to stand up in theaters when Guinea's national anthem was played; one drew three months ("willful deterioration of Guinea's national heritage") for...