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Chief and most unbelievable charac ter in this self-proclaimed "novel of the new American revolution" is Arkansas Representative Timotheus Denney, who is cast as the legislative wizard and bourbon-breathing Grand Dragon of all the sheetless Klansmen on Capitol Hill. This Ozark Ozymandias wants the Government to build him a $2 billion Denney Dam back in Yell County, Ark. But he faces an ironic choice: the dam will be voted out of committee only if Denney pledges support for a civil rights bill. Never, he yells, and threatens to touch off race war if the dam doesn...
Socialist Humanitarianism. The summing up was the predictable set propaganda piece-one that the London Times dismissed as "crude stuff" and a "charac teristic mistake by the Russians." To Prosecutor Rudenko, the trial "unmasked completely the criminal aggressive actions of the U.S. ruling quarters" and the "savage, man-hating ethics of Allen Dulles & Co., placing the dollar, this yellow devil, higher than human life." By way of defense, Powers' court-appointed attorney. Mikhail Grinev, who makes a good living losing cases he is expected to. tried to outdo the prosecution in attacking the U.S. Powers, he said, "should...
...HONOUR MORE, by Joyce Cary (309 pp.; Harper; $3.50), winds up a trilogy, kills off three of its main charac ters and, as usual, leaves the readers of British Novelist Gary oddly moved and vaguely irritated. In Volume I, Prisoner of Grace, Heroine Nina Latter told her story - that of a woman who obviously needed two husbands, behaved outrageously with both, but was so genuinely lovable that neither could live without her, and all three wound up living to gether. In Volume II, Except the Lord, her first husband, Liberal Politician Ches ter Nimmo, had his say and explained...
Pointing out the "increasing evidence of a desire to have the Divinity Sch revitalised and given more the charac of a center of religious learning." President Conant proposed raising $5,000,0 in general subscriptions among alumni and $1,000,000 in contributions from the Corporation...
Italy's best novelist unravels the charac ter of a Fascist (TIME...