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Wuthering Heights II is not without its redeeming factors. The principal one is Anna Calder-Marshall, 23, a British actress who won an American Emmy in 1969 for a TV presentation of Male of the Species. As Cathy, she lends her role a caste of palpable tragedy and dignity. Like...
No small part of the Allingham charm is her chariness with detail. Where Sayers gorges the reader with information about Lord Peter's mulish family and elegant tastes, Allingham drops only a few facts per book. In Police at the Funeral, for instance, the reader learns that Mr. Campion...
"Another thing that worries me." Carr continued, "is the possible development of a military caste in this country. Maybe I'm too pessimistic, but all these objections make the plan seem impractical to me."
"We were carefully sorted out in the Yard in a caste system. The floor I lived on in Thayer there was only one real upper-class type-Lewis Jefferson Proctor [St. Paul's]. His father was head of American Telephone for South America. He died in 1958 of sheer decadence...
It remained to be seen whether Arana was also prepared to address himself to the urgent problems of a country where 64% of its 5,100,000 people are illiterate and most farm land is held by the rich. Perhaps the gravest problem of all is the continued existence of...