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...tentacular algae of his subaqueous and electrified impudicity or the nacreous and colubrine doves of a psychosomatic idealism to circle in simmering syndromes the facades of a palladian narcissism." Yet he can go from there to a superb review of William Faulkner's latest novel and the fairest, most graceful estimate yet of Fellow Critic Van Wyck Brooks's work. Sometimes his literary snobbishness leads Wilson into his most readable and most amusing writing. "Ambushing a Best-Seller" will make readers of the trashier kinds of historical novels blush for themselves and the authors who provide their fare...
...rivals now concede that they can frequently undersell A & P. In New Orleans last week, Independent Grocer John Schwegmann, who runs a thriving supermarket, said: "I started on a shoestring right down the street from the A & P supermarket and I have done all right. I consider them the fairest competition I have...
...lost my eyesight, I would still have a comfortable living ... I can assure you that within a short time you will receive from me every cent that I owe you ... I am humiliated, disappointed and heartsick, but ... I can do nothing else . . . Please try to see this in the fairest light possible...
Your write-up of the farm problem in your June 19 issue was the fairest I have read out side the agricultural press...
...Tokyo's sprawling red-light district, other Japanese revived a rite of spring. For centuries up to 1913, the annual parade of Tokyo's fairest prostitutes had been a vernal harbinger as reliable as the appearance of the first robin. Under U.S. regulations prostitutes are outlawed, but Tokyo's brothels, thinly disguised as "teahouses," still cater to an average of 500 customers nightly. Last week, each leaning on an attendant and trying her best to walk in the traditional graceful gait of her calling, under the weight of a 6-lb. wig and suffocatingly embroidered antique costume...