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...Chinese proverb says, "Where there is an excess of ceremony, there is sure to be deceit...
...Deceit in Solution...
Commenting on the allegation that de Gaulle's solution to the Algerian problem was charged with deceit. Hoffmann said "it had certain elements of deceit in it, but what else is leadership? If trickery worked, more power to it. The alternative was disaster. What is surprising is not the solution which de Gaulle found, but that he was able to find a solution...
...denounces the pair as depraved, but when he kills a man. his charges against them are branded the lies of a madman. No matter; the damage has been done. In a monstrous irony, Sologub makes it clear that the lovers, not by their love but by the lying and deceit they used to protect themselves from Peredonov's slanders, have been permanently tarnished...
Textbook Shortage. Until lately, texts have consisted mostly of J. Edgar Hoover's Masters of Deceit, the writings of Marx and Lenin, assorted serious explanations of Communism by authorities, and a range of less scholarly books down to paperbacks with scary titles and bloody hammers and sickles on the covers. Established textbook publishers are now beginning to enter the field with professional treatment. (TIME Inc.'s Silver Burdett will publish The Meaning of Communism this winter...