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Lost Force. At his best, Aiken can suggest a mental atmosphere with compelling force. He was one of the forerunners of the still-current rage for Freudian fiction, an early psychological novelist who explored neurotic fear and sexual antagonisms with extraordinary restrained sensuality. Rich in inner soliloquy, barren of drama, his writing is most successful in evocative short stories (notably Silent Snow, Secret Snow, The Last Visit and Mr. Arcularis), where he is able to embody a single emotion in a single carefully worked image...
Abroad, the most immediate problem is a violent quarrel with Kenya's northeastern neighbor, Somalia, which lays claim to the barren but extensive Northeastern Region, inhabited by 200,000 Somalis (see map). To diminish such quarrels, Kenya is earnestly pushing an East African Federation of Kenya with Tanganyika and Uganda, which would create a nation of 25 million people and might eventually be extended to such small states as Zanzibar, Nyasaland, Rwanda and Burundi. Internationally, Kenya will, of course, be neutralist and accept aid from both East and West...
Desperate Appeals. As the tension increased, a handful of newsmen, among them TIME Correspondent Gavin Scott, was permitted to visit the dingy mine standing on a barren mountain. He found the men held in two rooms decorated with bright pictures of Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union. They were treated well enough, they said, but their dynamite-laden female wardens were getting extremely nervous. Both the mother and wife of arrested Union Leader Pimentel were among the guards. Reported Scott: "The women are surly, well armed, impulsive and dangerous. Even if the men wanted to relent and give up the hostages...
When modern Israel was born, the Negev was a barren waste supporting only a tiny population of hungry Bedouins. But it had not always been so empty. Everywhere were the relics of ancient people: mounds, forts, roads, wells and walled fields. The common explanation was that the climate had got drier, turning a once fertile country into desert. But Glueck was not convinced. During his long, painstaking exploration of neighboring Transjordan, he had looked for evidence of climatic change and found none. Instead he found evidence that the country had been fairly thickly settled during periods of political stability. After...
...come-hither look, falling behind the competition from Europe, where Sophia Loren still unquestionably rules the pantheon. Around her, Bardot and Lollobrigida are fading. But Romy Schneider, Simone Signoret, Claudia Cardinale and Elke Sommer can each outsex all that the American industry has to offer. Hollywood is so barren of sex, in fact, that only last week Universal Pictures had to hold a beauty contest in New York's Americana Hotel in order to find three girls to add wattage to a promotion for its new film, The Brass Bottle, which stars the shapely, sultry, sloe-eyed Burl Ives...