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...bombing stopped, the populace began to look for some fruits of what their leaders said had been a glorious victory. None were forthcoming, and the regime has been forced to exhort its people more than ever to work harder and retain a warlike spirit. If this analysis is correct, then all the allied claims justifying the bombing as demoralizing to Ho's people would seem to have been in error...
...walk out," he says. "If the democrats are in the majority, then the others must walk out or be kicked out." Menon holds much the same view: "Who will fill the gap in New Delhi? A rightist coalition or a unity of the left?" If the old antagonists are correct, the years ahead could well be the noisiest as well as the most divisive since Indian independence...
...applies to Nabokov himself. Over the years he has repeatedly complained about the damage inflicted on the Nabokov name in its passage through foreign ports of articulation. Nabokov, Nabokov, Nah-bo-kov, are frequent errors. Rare mutations, he reports, include Nahba-cocoa and Na-bob-kopf. The correct sound, says the man who made the name famous, is Nahboakoff. Slipping on the mask of a straight face for an instant, he continues: "Vladeemir, as in 'redeemer...
Death of a Gunfighter might have been as good as its actors. As bone-weary Marshal Frank Patch, Richard Widmark is as legitimate and leathery as a saddle. His mistress (Lena Horne) cannot make a move or a speech that is not correct or elegant; her appearance in this symbol-minded film sadly recalls a 13-year absence from Hollywood. Like the High Lama in Lost Horizon, Widmark and Horne seem at once endlessly old and miraculously preserved, as if they were waiting for a revelation. Death of a Gunfighter is not it. In a town settling into the 20th...
Further research has suggested that this interpretation is correct, although no one knows for sure because no legal scholars have ever had any reason to consider the problem. A source in the office of the Counsel to the Massachusetts Senate has said that it seems probable the Governing Board's approval is required. And Morison, in his Development of Harvard University, 1869-1929, agrees that this principle "may now be considered a settled point in American constitutional...