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...part of the world that had gone no place since the Civil War, the directionless road of vaudevillian fame was far more apt as a symbol of Arkansas' dead-end economic and political condition than as a sampling of Ozark humor. For all its majestic forests and fertile bottom lands, its bountiful natural resources and the Mississippi on its eastern frontier, the state remained for long decades a kind of limboland...
...since no one can really agree on the identity of anyone else, it is difficult to discover who, if anyone, is dead, much less why. Readers who happen to be avid for the daytime retelling of last night's nightmare will find surfeit in La Maison; others are apt to hurl the book, if it is a book, at the wall...
Questioning the doctrines, the man of faith has had his faith strengthened. Examining the doctrines, the skep tic has been apt to find myths far stronger than reality...
...brought me to this forlorn place?" goes an old Vietnamese song about exile. It was hardly an apt description of the scene in Paris last week when South Vietnamese expatriates celebrated Viet Nam's National Day at the Maison de I'Amerique Latine. Consul General Nguyen Huu Tan, dressed in tails, greeted the guests, who drank bottle after bottle of cold champagne-Moet et Chandon 1949, Brut Imperial -the best. Along the Left Bank, the North Vietnamese were throwing their own ball at the headquarters of their diplomatic delegation. Not a bad life for an exile, whatever...
...Book's $183.30 for 20 volumes, Compton's $179.50 for 15 volumes and Britannica Junior's $149.50 for 15 volumes. All tend to emphasize subjects found in school curriculums and each tries to use a vocabulary suitable to the grade at which the subject is most apt to be taught. Britannica and Book of Knowledge are more directly aimed at elementary school children, while the other two are more useful in high school...