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Last week, in the opulent gloom of movie theaters in Manhattan and Chicago, the lovely woman screamed & screamed. For a moment, the scene looked exactly like the old-fashioned thrill shot that moviemakers call a "cliff-hanger." But what moviegoers were actually getting was a breathtaking glimpse of an abyss in the infinite mountains of the mind...
...publication at the expense of the art of teaching are guilty of a grave and perhaps irreparable sin against civilization. Communities which spend millions for alcohol, cosmetics and amusements, and what is left over for schools, are committing spiritual suicide. [We are] letting our world slide into an abyss of technological and moral confusion...
Readers have complained that A Handful of Dust is not as gay as Waugh's earlier novels. It is, in fact, the terrifying crater of the abyss in which Waugh exists. Waugh is a conservative. In his case, this implies an intense sensitivity to the beauty of past forms, an organic response to the moral order that produced them. Waugh is a lover of tradition and hierarchy. In a world which denies hierarchy in the name of equality and tradition in the name of progress, Waugh is a lonely and an angry man. The modern world revolts...
...agreement he flayed as foreshadowing the creation of two conflicting German governments and a war for which France was unprepared. He called for renewed negotiations with the U.S. and Great Britain, and failing this, demanded that France go her own way alone. "We are on the edge of an abyss," he cried...
...ahead with necessary changes," said Saragat last week. "Otherwise I wouldn't have entered the cabinet. Our task is to give him all possible support, to push and suggest that which will benefit the working classes." Of Communists, Saragat has said: "Nothing separates us-except a great abyss." But his alliance with De Gasperi was an uneasy one. Said the Premier recently of his colleague: "Saragat sometimes seems to hear the call of the wild...