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...little New Hampshire town of Harlowe, he begins his auctions with a benefit for the one-man police force. But he is not in town for charitable purposes. Before long, the townspeople's most precious possessions-including, eventually, children-fall under Dunsmore's hammer. Wisps of evil drift through the book, perceived through the eyes of the Moores, a proud old farming family. "You'll pay worse if you try to say no," warns Mim Moore. "Somebody-some head guy somewhere's bound to catch on and put the lid on the whole thing," a friend...
...TIME Diplomatic Editor Jerrold Schecter reports: "Kissinger sees himself as holding the structure of the nation's foreign policy together, and he is in no position to hand over foreign policy to a successor now. He fears the impact of his leaving would contribute to the sense of drift; he will stay as long as he is effective...
...cute, come on strong ("That's not the wind-it's souls in purgatory"), then have a good laugh on themselves. No body seems to have any connection to anyone else. They all stumble along in the drenching sun, not bothering about much of anything. The general drift-and one needs a memory of the novel even for this-is that a man makes his bones not by cheating death but by laughing at it. It is a wholly unworthy point to be making, which may also explain why the laughs are in such short supply...
...conceivable dramatic calorie count, the plot courts starvation. The setting is a drafty, government-sponsored art studio, a cross between a ratty garret and an army barracks. Several young men and women of working-class origin drift in. Their teacher, Allott (Kevin Conway), has come earlier, as has Stella (Veronica Castang), the nude model. As the students stand at their sketch boards, it is quickly apparent that they are wholly inept and could not tell Degas from dandruff. They are whiling away the days on a subsidized boondoggle, and for them art is what Writer Rose Macaulay once said...
What worries some parents is that as those children learn to read and write, they will drift away to the towns and cities, looking for jobs as drivers, messengers, clerks, hotel servants. Some will manage to get through universities; once they earn a bachelor's degree, the government guarantees them jobs in the civil service or state-owned industries. "Even our young widows are going to school," says an old fellah. "In the old days, they would be looking for second husbands. Now they want to become schoolteachers." Adds a more affluent fellah: "It's the very poorest...