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...Steiner's contempt for respectable America, the land of the free and the bourgeoisie, certainly implies a moral judgment that leads us to ask why Steiner is justified in rejecting those social regulations which transform the chaotic into the orderly, or in condemning those who seem to be more principled and responsible than himself. No matter how often we ask, however, Zane leaves us in a moral haziness, which leads us in turn to suspect that he doesn't know how to solve the moral dilemma he has generated. Perhaps this is because he has known too well these strange...
...chaotic prelude, Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko and the Big Three Ministers wrangled over the 11th-hour attempt to bring East Germany to the conference table...
...really does not quite meet TV specifications for a private eye. Big Tom weighs 270 lbs., is a happily married homebody (three children) who has no time for slinky blondes. But otherwise, Tom is up to fictional standards. He is a proven skullbasher: in Italy's first chaotic postwar days he tangled with the Communists in (by his own estimate) 1,300 street brawls, mowing them down with a chunk of railroad track. And he has cold nerve: when two madmen terrorized a school full of children near Milan in 1956, Tom defied the maniacs' gunfire, closed...
Economically better off than India, politically no more unstable than Indonesia, Ceylon moves imperfectly forward-but it does move. Said a Western observer to a TIME correspondent in Colombo last week: "It's utterly chaotic, and yet I'm less worried about Ceylon today than I was a year ago. If the Ceylonese have learned anything from the British, I guess it is the art of muddling through...
...Petersburg in 1905; it is a city where icy water licks morose granite foundations. In prose that seems jittery at first, then calculated, Biely moves from a fashionable masquerade ball to the roach-ridden headquarters of the revolutionary gang; he works the weather and the face of the chaotic city into his story so firmly that at last they seem as important and ominous as any character in the book. When the bomb finally goes off, it is not so much an exclamation point as a period to a narrative that has told all but judged nothing...