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...Writer Waterhouse has done his real work beyond easy symbolism and easier outrage, in the Dickensian world of created character. He is what a writer should be, no pamphleteer but a patient and compassionate exhibitor of the tender and grisly oddments that find themselves locked up, helter-skelter, in the strange rag-and-bone shop of the human heart...
Tories for his cell-to-ceiling program of reform for Britain's Dickensian prison system. Since 1962, when he was named First Secretary of State, Butler has supervised a variety of thankless tasks, notably mapping independence for the three states of the Central African Federation. He is outspokenly pro-American and, with Foreign Secretary Lord Home, has probably been the staunchest Cabinet advocate of British membership in President Kennedy's "mixed manned" multilateral force...
Inside Narodny's five-story headquarters, the only tinge of Red is its massive maroon safe. Clerks work in a Dickensian atmosphere of mahogany panels, marble floors and gilded grillwork. Only the top six officers and one secretary are Russian; the other 133 employees are Britons-and everybody pauses for 4 o'clock tea. Says Doubonossov with a bankerish smile: "We observe the customs and conventions of the City of London." One closely observed custom is Narodny's refusal to divulge the names of its many British clients...
...career as a one-man language school is a long parenthesis in the comedy of misunderstanding. Not only is teacher always playing hooky from his own school, but one of his students, who is a Dickensian portrait of infatuated complacence, actually loses command of the few English phrases he started with...
...says. "Perhaps that was why I was surprised, having come from a country of almost total change, to find so little here." To Ball, the rebuilt Germany has an airport-terminal newness and sameness; Britain impresses more by its age and continuity and settled ways ("Where else would a Dickensian wine dealer advise about a '57 Burgundy in kindly but firm tones: 'No news from that one at all yet, I'm afraid...