Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sinister Forces. The French intelligence experts, says De Vosjoli, left ashen-faced from their sessions with Martel and reported home with the emphatic finding that Martel knew what he was talking about. But except for the arrest of Paques, SDECE took no steps that Washington could see to flush out the spies. De Vosjoli's superior at SDECE explained that France could not stand a major scandal at a time when it was just recovering from the Algerian war, but De Vosjoli suspected that "other, possibly sinister, forces were the real reason for the inaction." He leaves open...
Economic Slump. Though the junta has brought stability to Greece and taken a certain number of sensible steps, it has little to celebrate on its first an niversary except its own dogged determination to hold onto power. The country is still ruled by decree, and the press remains under tight censorship. Because of the period of political uncertainty that preceded the coup, the Greek economy, which had been growing nearly as fast as Japan's, was headed into a recession even before the colonels seized power. Despite all sorts of pump-priming measures, such as the cancellation...
...Only the children tie the couples to what used to be called adult responsibilities, and even they are occasionally trundled about from bed to bed to make room for their elders. "All these goings-on would be purely lyrical, like nymphs and satyrs in a grove," said Updike recently, "except for the group of distressed and neglected children...
Horrid Little Man. Updike possesses uneven skill as a manipulator or impersonator of characters. For more than half the book it is virtually impossible tell the characters apart or to remember who is sleeping with whom except by drawing a chart. (The generous explanation is that this is not due to the author's lack of craftsmanship, but rather that it represents a deliberate attempt to show the dreary interchangeability of the adulterers.) The novel is seen largely through Piet's intelligence and sensibilities. Most of the other male characters are unreal, merely equipped with identifying jobs...
...Except for the four years he served in the Army, Kahn has been writing for magazines ever since. To write for the New Yorker is actually to be a free-lance writer with office. The writer comes up with his own idea for a piece, the magazine agrees to pay the expenses for the research and keeps advancing the writer money while he is writing it. As a result, Kahn admits, he is usually in debt to the New Yorker. "I can't afford to take a year off like those professors can," he says. Because of this...