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Most of the snow is gone except for a pile by the backstop. The grass is a curious patchwork of light shades of brown and green. Somehow one can't imagine players in clean white uniforms charging out onto the green to start their seasons in just a month...
Biographer Robert Lacey's task is to relate the woman who happens to live in Buckingham Palace to this "flourishing of the British constitutional monarchy"-one of the more "curious social phenomena of the 20th century," as he rightly observes. It is no easy job, and the word paradox gets used freely. In the end, Lacey, the author of a biography of Sir Walter Raleigh (and a staffer on the London Sunday Times), has spread his cloak over the puddle and gallantly invented a second Elizabeth to walk across it. If this act of prestidigitation is not a work...
...effort to analyze the causes of the war in Vietnam; that is not her mission. Her goal is that of a reporter, to describe what has happened, and she makes little attempt to move beyond that limited role. In some ways that omission is unfortunate: the reader is left curious about the meaning of Emerson's experience about just what it is that she expects people to remember. The horror of it she presents clearly. The reasons the Vietnam war is a more horrible episode than other colonial wars, than, say, Korea, is less clear. The lessons are left vague...
...than an aid program in helping Hanoi. The country is drawing up a sophisticated foreign investment code that would allow production-sharing agreements on natural resources, including oil, and up to 49% capitalist participation in other enterprises. Moreover, a group of visiting Japanese oil prospectors has been given the curious news that petroleum development was reserved for "the American sector." Observes one U.S. banker: "All the signals are there. They want to get back into the ball game, and the U.S. is the key to that...
...humiliating Alger Hiss, adversity has brought out his best qualities. It is a mixed picture though. "People who have an explanation for Al's behavior these days tend to see him either as an unregenerate old villain or a spotless martyr," he writes. "But I'm in a curious position and don't have to see him as saint or sinner...