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Calley has also developed a mortal fear of accidental death, not for the usual reason but because the world might think he was a coward who took his own life. "If I got killed in my car on the way to Atlanta," he explains, "everyone would think Calley copped out. I had a room in Delmonico's Hotel in New York once with a floor-to-ceiling window. I was afraid to go to sleep at night because I thought I might sleepwalk through one of those 18th-floor windows and everybody would think Calley committed suicide...
Leader and founder of the troupe is Isabelle Standwell, an Englishwoman whose aristocratic manners seem oddly appropriate both to Lady Macbeth and Wilde's Lady Bracknell She also lends her dowager tones to Schubert lieder and such trifles as Nevermore from Noel Coward's Conversation Piece. Her brother Sicnarf, having lived in America, has acquired a Southern accent as well as a rowdy taste in music and poetry; he does the genial turns...
...this case, to run away from one's problems is not the coward's way out, it's the only...
...affair as "a triumph of Soviet foreign policy and a personal triumph," in the sense that it assured a Communist future for Cuba. But he does concede that "we were obliged to make some big concessions." Public opinion in many places, he says, decided that "Khrushchev had turned coward and backed down," and even Cuba felt that the outcome was a "moral defeat...
Political rhetoric tends to achieve a life of its own, congealing into cant and conventional wisdom, an unexamined shorthand. In a forthcoming book, The Real Majority (Coward-McCann Inc.; $7.95), Political Analysts Richard Scammon and Ben J. Wattenberg take a canny inventory of the nation's political assumptions and vocabulary. They conclude that some of the preconceptions of both Democrats and Republicans need a fresh going over...