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Almost everyone has had the near maddening frustration of hearing a nameless melody repeat itself diabolically inside the mind's ear. Relief is on its way. Denys Parsons' Directory of Tunes and Musical Themes, promises its introduction, works even for people who "think that A Flat Major is...
The Life and Destiny of Isak Dinesen by Frans Lasson and Clara Svendsen. Illustrated. 227 pages. Random House. $15. Hundreds of pictures of the author and dozens of her family, friends, pets, houses, manuscripts and even book jackets. What is desperately missing from this reverential literary curiosity is any sense...
The museum's Keeper of Greek and Roman Antiquities, Denys Haynes, stood fast. "I am very, very cross with her," he snapped. "If she wants to put her points down on paper, we shall examine them, as we should the arguments of any member of the public." Angry as...
Slowly, under the ceaseless threats of German minefields and strafing from Allied planes, the barriers between men are obliterated. In the absurdity of their situation, they discover a common humanity, a measure of individual worth. Eying a comrade, one soldier grumbles: "Doctors call his case paranoia. The army calls him...
By the time he reached Uruguay, just over the border from his citadel of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil's Chamber of Deputies had voted 298-14 to approve his inauguration as President as the first step toward the conversion to parliamentary rule. There was an agonizing delay as...