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Principal problem: how to get rid of Ky's tough but tactless security chief, Brigadier General Nguyen Ngoc Loan, 35, who last month offended the Southerners by nabbing one of their number, and seldom bothers to conceal his contempt for the Southern group as a whole-or any other critics of Ky. Loan, like Ky, is a Northerner who went south after the 1954 partition. The two were fellow pilots in the Vietnamese air force, and when Ky took power last year, he promptly asked Loan to be his director of national security...
...Sulzberger, disguised as a distinguished journalist, tries to conceal his identity as an international provocateur." And even the conservative daily Kathimerini suggested that the King should refrain from talking to" foreign journalists. Sulzberger, however, was not fazed: "I'm never really too surprised at anything that happens in Greece," he said. "They are an imaginative people and take their politics seriously...
...joke of course goes on too long (80 minutes), and when the spectator tires of it he can't help noticing what Allen's annotations cannot entirely conceal: the original film. It's terrible. Still and all, Allen & Co. stand to make about 1000% profit on their minuscule investment, and that ain't bean curd...
...Junior Show is only part of the Junior Show. The institution surrounds itself with intriguing accoutrements--from the demurely bizarre construction of the Alumnae Hall Auditorium to the program filled with class and dorm ads which conceal their identity behind visual puns or signatures hidden almost as well as the "Nina" in a Hirschfield cartoon. If the Show's pace is ever too slow, you can try to puzzle out the ads or memorize the name of the Junior class tree (Crimson king maple...
Since Warner does not conceal his allegorical purpose-indeed, he flaunts it-the reader is nervously aware all along that the slender narrative has second billing. What happens, then, does not really count. What counts is Warner's message, which he states and restates with a bald clarity of which Kafka, whom Warner admires and emulates, never felt the need. "I began to see," says Roy, "that this life, in spite of its drunkenness and inefficiency, was wider and deeper than the activity in which we were constricted by the iron compulsion of the air vice marshal...