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Advise and Consent. Allen Drury's best-selling novel about Washington makes an engrossing political melodrama. While somewhat superficial and oversimplified, at least it treats the theatrically much neglected subject of power without cant...
Advise and Consent. Allen Drury's bestselling novel about Washington makes an engrossing political melodrama. While somewhat superficial and oversimplified, at least it treats the theatrically much-neglected subject of power without cant...
...another important career-he was a gadfly committed to "a deadly, unstoppable and indefatigable campaign against the dry rot that one observes everywhere in this unhappy land." His coat of arms might have been emblazoned with his personal credo: "Improve the standards; clean out the muck; cut out the cant!" Beecham was sometimes referred to as the greatest amateur in musical history -partially because he was financially independent, partially because he approached his music with a relaxed urbanity foreign to such great, tyrannical contemporaries as Toscanini or Reiner. Despite the ferocity of his public utterances, he handled his orchestras with...
...supertight Caribbean island nation are clear. After years of posing as Latin America's strongest anti-Communist bulwark, the dictator has started cozying up to Castro and the Soviet bloc. Six months ago Trujillo's Radio Caribe propaganda outlet adopted a Marxist, anti-U.S. cant in its commentary. Last August the dictator sent emissaries to Europe and began the first of a series of secret meetings with Iron Curtain leaders; rumors are buzzing in Ciudad Trujillo that diplomatic relations will soon be established with Poland and Russia...
...Algerian situation here; that story has, basically, been told often enough. But Aron's views on the Fifth Republic's attempt to answer the question: "Is a democracy capable of waging a war of which an important element in the country disapproves?" are completely free of familiar cant, and remarkable in that respect at least. He speculates that two years ago de Gaulle could have acceded to the demands of the F.L.N. for compromise "without provoking a revolt by the French soldiers and citizens of Algeria," so strong was his prestige at that time. He is only vaguely optimistic about...