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...shops. France and the rest of the West are more confused and divided than ever, helpless before the poised divisions of the "Commonwealth of Freedomloving People" (Russia). For Fyodor Nikitin, however, cultural attache at the Free Commonwealth embassy, life holds neither personal nor political problems. Communism is his crutch and his faith. When Paris nightclubs, dressing gowns and mistresses begin to turn him a little soft, he has only to read a page or two of Marx and Engels to stiffen up again...
...crutch was hesitantly proffered him. The fifth member of the committee, Iowa's Republican Bourke Hickenlooper, next day looked at the FBI summary and said he could not give any blanket absolution without a look at the full files, although he was "not making any final conclusions either...
...swung his crutches over the puddle, lifting his cast and its wooly sock carefully so it wouldn't splash in the slush. The crutch tips banged solidly against the sidewalk; Vag raised them again, and then plunged them into the crust of melting snow at the end of a driveway...
Technically, the novel is weak. The loose, rambling prose does out take hold of the reader until the genuinely rich plot begins to move by itself. Lamkin falls to take advantage of the dramatic situations he has devised, and much too often he uses the hack writer's crutch of divulging information about one character through the lips of another. It is true that this indirectness of style produces a wispy, unrealistic effect that is appropriate to the subject matter, but at times it becomes apparent that Lamkin does not yet know how to explain a character's motives effectively...
...department used some of its excess income in bailing out the library and HAA, it needs most of the remaining surplus to guard against possible ups-and-downs in the near future. Moreover, University policy is that each individual department should stand for itself and not serve as a crutch for others...