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...novels of the last fifty years." James is "as solitary in the history of the novel as Shakespeare in the history of poetry." It is not the brilliant surface and subtlety of James that attracts Greene, of course, but the underlying anguish, the "hidden books" behind "the façade of his public life." In an essay that no one else could have written, Greene claims James as a literary brother because, as Greene sees it, James also believed in the victory of evil in this world. Greene, in fact, almost succeeds in a posthumous conversion of the Old Master...
...Government and acquire close friends on both sides of the fence. Some are skilled lawyers who see nothing unusual in asking large fees (reportedly up to $1,000,000 by Clark Clifford) during their out periods for discreetly pleading a client's case behind the bureaucratic façade...
...element as well, tending to give credence to De Gaulle's oft-proclaimed prophecy that after his departure chaos would ensue. Then he dismissed Gaullist Jacques Foccart as Secretary-General for African Affairs. Knowledgeable Frenchmen were delighted: Foccart's African designation was in fact a façade for his job as boss of the Gaullist "Barbouzes," a thuggish lot of secret police and informers...
Everybody Knew. Despite a boyish faÇade, Curtis knew all about the movie business. He had played Ma and Pa Kettle's ninth kid, he had appeared irregularly on Leave It to Beaver, and he had received a master's degree in cinemaphotography from U.S.C. by producing a documentary on weight lifting. He also had what his friends like to describe as a sixth sense for publicity. The other five did not really matter; Raquel's publicity raced pellmell ahead of her films. "20th Century-Fox billed me as a sex symbol in Fantastic Voyage...
Tedious Trip. Spurred on by that hemmed-in feeling, Feinberg brazenly began questioning the inviolable Einsteinian speed limit more than a dec ade ago. But no matter how he analyzed the set of mathematical equations that define relativity, he could not es cape the conclusion that matter cannot be accelerated to the speed of light, to say nothing of higher velocities. The equations showed that at the velocity of light, the mass and energy of any ordinary particle would become infinite -a clearly impossible situation. Beyond it, his mathematics suggested, the mass and energy of the particle can only...