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Trying to be too many things to too many people can deprive a family of its own integrity. Such is the theme of Frank Hogan's recent play Finn MacKool, in which campaigning is equated with the devil's own work. Under a satanic compulsion they are too vain to resist, a Kennedy-like family drives one member after another into the hell of politics. In fact, campaigning is more purgatory than hades, and families are more likely to be consumed by television coverage than hellfire. Still, the extensive use of the family as campaigners smacks of cynical...
...brisk covert trade (perhaps as much as $100 million a year) with the white regimes. Malawi (pop. 5,100,000) practically flaunts its desire for cordial relations with the white governments. Says the country's U.S.-educated President, Hastings Kamuzu Banda: "I'd trade with the devil if it's for the good of Malawi...
Behind his devil-may-care lightheartedness, however, runs a strain of innate wisdom, an instinct about people and an unwavering loyalty that makes him the one friend you would turn to, not just because he's a drinking buddy who'll keep you laughing, but because, well, he's a good...
This slim volume (by Delderfield standards) would not hold even a closet door open. As far as the flag and the Empire are concerned, it might be subtitled To Subvert Them All My Days or The Devil Is a Welshman. Delderfield's Angry Young Man, 1929-style, is a young bank clerk named Charlie Pritchard-5 ft. 5 in. of meekness, with horn rimmed glasses. After six years of diligent work in his drab little Welsh seaside town, Charlie still boards in a room formerly occupied by a pickle salesman. He has barely risen to be fifth...
...L.A.P.D. unit's approach to a witness is simple and direct. The subject is offered a comfortable chair, and a two-man team explains to him that a witness cannot be hypnotized against his will. (When one scared subject blurted that "the devil will come out of me if I'm hypnotized," he was excused.) "Motivation is the most important thing," says Sandstrom. "If they are willing to cooperate and you help them to relax, then it is very easy...