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Perhaps the frustrations of a misguided critical appraisal are the reason for Mr. Wilson's new and singularly disturbing novel, The Old Men at the Zoo. What Mr. Wilson has now published is a book that is at once grotesquely savage, brutally satiric, and impersonally destructive of the whole fabric of English society...
...evening's redeeming feature were the compositions themselves. A composer can weave simple musical threads into a dazzling fabric or unravel good broad-cloth until it is lint. Bach and Mozart chose to weave simple tunes into golden cloth...
President Pusey warned that "the world's current preoccupation with science" might "effect a monstrous distortion within the fabric of learning" in a Convocation address he delivered Saturday at the University of Delhi, India...
...Perle Mesta's fine furniture, but hired Interior Decorator Genevieve Hendricks to help give The Elms a touch of Texas without spoiling the French look. In the living room, paneled with red-and-gold brocatelle from an old French castle, Lady Bird upholstered everything in jaspe satin ("Fabric-wise, I like this room best"), added a cherry-rose chair ''that seems to say, 'Come in.' " The dining room, which Mrs. Mesta had decorated with French wall coverings of tapestry patterns, was considered perfect as it was. In the foyer are displayed some dazzling mementos...
Such frequent corruption, he said, not only drains the state treasury of needed funds and indicates immorality, but also brings mediocrity and delay in conducting Massachusetts' business, promotes public apathy, and abolishes the "alienated voter's" confidence in all public officials. "The whole fabric of democracy is destroyed," Richardson declared, "and this is the real price of corruption...