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...next stage of life for Dave is his strange platonic affair with Gwen French. Gwen is teacher of "creative writing" at Parkman College, where "the sharp vinegary smell of intellectual ferment was everywhere... and the sizzling sound of the frying brains." Naturally, Dave falls into her skillet. He dreams of "a long, rich, exchangeful, reaching out, and perhaps even sometimes touching, making contact, love affair." But Gwen French believes that unrequited love drives a man to ink. Dave's novel progresses to a tattoo of discipline and advice ("Don't complexify...
With the heat on, the spotlights glaring, and an investigation-bent Democratic Congress due back next month, behind-the-scenes Washington is in a rare state of ferment. Items...
Connoisseurs of the French scene have learned to grade local political ferment in terms of what they call ripeness. Last week, after 26 days without a government, France's political cheese was about as ripe as it could get without rotting on the shelf...
...riots were only the outward expression of an intellectual ferment which has seethed through Poland ever since Gomulka declared his provisional independence from Moscow. Its unquestioned leader is a gawky, 36-year-old political philosopher whose devastating attacks on the Russians' brand of Communism have already made him a hero to Poland's students. "Leszek Kolakowski," said one ardent young Communist last week, "is much more important for Polish intellectual development than Khrushchev's speech...
Well aware that Poland now wants to shuck off Soviet domination, that all of Eastern Europe is in ferment, and that anything any Western nation can do to help break the Soviet grip would help, the old Chancellor set out with realistic caution. He wanted more trade with Poland, hoping that from this mutually advantageous first step diplomatic relations might follow. As a beginning, he would like to send a trade mission to Warsaw headed not by a trader but by a political figure...