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...carded by husbands at will. In these circumstances, said Mme. Nhu, a Vietnamese woman was "an eternal minor, an unpaid servant, a doll without a soul." In 1958 she rammed through the Assembly her controversial Family Bill, which made adultery a prison offense and outlawed polygamy, concubinage, and???except by special presidential dispensation?divorce...
What they saw behind a cluster of birches was a simple, one-story New England house painted barnred, a modest vegetable garden, and???100 yards and across a stream from the house?a little concrete cell with a skylight. The cell contains a fireplace, a long table with a typewriter, books and a filing cabinet. Here the pale man usually sits, sometimes writing quickly, other times throwing logs into the fire for hours and making long lists of words until he finds the right one. The writer is Jerome David Salinger, and almost all his fictional characters seem more real...
...with Salinger and married a young blue-suit from the Harvard Business School. Just as abruptly, she ended the marriage after several months and returned to Cornish. She and Salinger were married in 1955. His wedding present to his bride was Franny, whose heroine has Claire's looks, mannerisms, and???the sort of private salute that amuses the author?Claire's blue suitcase...
...that is sometimes disconcerting. You feel that life does not dovetail into its various parts with such neatness. ... It is certain that sometimes it gives you a sensation of airlessness. . . ." Many a reader or re-reader of these tales will find them good stories, well told, interesting, definite, neat and???competent...
...Israel watcheth over each, and??? doth not watch for nought...