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Though he often seems flat and pedantic in front of large crowds, Carter effectively conveys a soft-spoken reasonableness and decency in face-to-face talks. "If I ever lie to you, if I ever betray you, then I want you to leave me," he tells youthful supporters in New Hampshire-and they warmly applaud his sincerity. So far, he remains well back in the presidential pack. Still, as so many of the candidates keep pointing out, so was George McGovern in a comparable period four years...
...novels (for instance, Captains Courageous)? Because, says Wilson, he could not conceal his true, tragic nature in the longer run. Mason concedes that Kipling's training and temperament put him into an almost impossible position as a writer: he was "an artist who must on no account betray his emotions." But he argues that Kipling struggled bravely and imaginatively to deliver himself whole to his reader, and that in fact his later, lesser-known stories- such parables in anguish as The Gardener and Mary Postgate-were his masterpieces...
...thing one would expect of Pawlowski," said Montano. "He is so correct -a gentleman very much in the tradition of fencing." Added American Fencer Jack Keane, captain of the Pan American fencing team, who has often competed with Pawlowski: "He is such a Polish patriot; he would no more betray his country than he would his sport...
...screen out police spies, prospective members were rigorously investigated. PIDE, Salazar's secret police, was never able to infiltrate the topmost echelons of the party, but it did place agents in smaller cells and made frequent arrests. Suspected Communists were tortured to betray other comrades; few broke, but some did not survive. "They were barbarians," says Avante Editor Dias Lourenço, who was freed at the time of the revolution after 17 years in prison. Once, he recalls, he spent two nights "under the rubber whip while they tried to get me to talk. All I said...
...first encountered huddled by the fire. "We should not have had one at home," he apologizes to Charlotte, "but the sea air is always damp. I am not afraid of anything so much as damp." But "Another Lady," unfortunately, cannot sustain the kind of dialogue in which the characters betray their own follies. Midway through the book, extensive descriptions of Charlotte's growing feelings for her Prince Charming, and a plot that is a little too complicated, rather than Austen's vivid and endlessly amusing characters, have become the focus of attention...