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Jean-Marie Amat, 30, whose handsome St. James restaurant in Bordeaux has earned him a stellar reputation in only four years: "Try to cook so that it will surprise a little, agreeably. I look for the note of flavor that will astonish slightly, without shocking. You must judge that by your own sense of taste. The one person you can never fool is yourself...
...Astonish me! Those two words should be inscribed over every playwright's desk. At the birth of drama, the ancient Greeks bodied forth the outrageous image of a man murdering his fa ther and marrying his mother. Doubtless, no one in the Athenian audience had performed those acts, but then, he or she had not come to the theater to see the people next door...
Another monster sleeps in the articles appearing on March 12-13, 1975, in the carefully controlled South Korean press; their full texts would astonish the Harvard community as they have the audience for Congressional Hearings. "The second objective (of the KTA-Harvard grants) is to promote counter-active efforts against those who spearhead anti-Korean government moves like Edwin O. Reischauer (University Professor) and Jerome Cohen (associate dean of the Law School) (and) thereby to engender a pro-Korean atmosphere at Harvard and in other American academic circles." The articles make much of the need to undercut critics of Korea...
...Flesh may be corruptible, and Author Elkin's spendthrift talent some times threatens to knock the bottom out of the word market entirely. But The Franchiser has what few novels have any more: the ability to astonish and delight and a totally conscious hero who proves that the unaudited life is not worth living...
...clandestine fraternity and more like an open society. New sensations would seem impossible to find, and few, if any, are contained in the latest CIA exposé by former Agent Philip Agee. His book, Inside the Company, is a sheaf of accusations and recollections that can no longer astonish a world grown familiar with the vagaries of secret services. Nevertheless, Agee's tales are worth attention, less for their shock value than for the descriptions of a subterranean arena...