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...possibilities, including: 1) presidential preaching to business and labor leaders that they have a "social responsibility" to hold down wages and prices; 2) wage-price guidelines drawn up by business and labor, rather than issued by the Government; 3) federal compilation and publicizing of statistics that would point a finger at industries, such as construction, where
...chickens. He inspects his delicately manicured lawn and the garden, one segment of which forms a floral fleur-de-lis, the symbol of French royalty. After 40 minutes, the general is back at his desk in his book-lined study. As he edits manuscripts, he extends his right index finger along the contoured body of the fountain pen to its tip. To his right is an old-fashioned inkwell from which he refills the pen, and to his left photographs of his grandchildren. There is always a vase of fresh flowers on the desk...
Whimsy is unavoidable. A dotty baronet has received a consignment of cut-rate statues from his alcoholic twin brother. The stone gods and goddesses include, naturally, Venus. A ring slipped on Venus' finger by a nervous bridegroom brings her to life, and love is reborn in a cold climate. The cast of characters, Burgess has explained, is drawn fondly from stock theatrical figures: "The boneheaded gold-hearted country squire in plus fours, the pert and resourceful servant, the grim but reliable chatelaine, the sweet guileless young lovers, the comic Anglican clergyman." Only a writer who can bring such scarecrows...
...Anderson Tape's is a standard "big caper" thriller (Topkapi, Rififi) in which a hungry hood just sprung from Sing Sing decides to strip a whole luxury Manhattan apartment house over a Labor Day weekend. He assembles a team of specialists to cut the alarm wires, finger the Klees and terrify any stray remaining tenants. The gimmick is that all the conspirators' haunts are bugged by various government agencies. Though it means that everything from a candy-store pay phone to Central Park itself has to be tapped, almost the whole novel consists of tape-recorded conversations instantly...
...charged with making. "We have clenched the fist with mass resistance," he said, "and we can only open it in two ways; we can open-it in brotherhood if the system has the capability of responding to immediate human needs, or we can open it to curl the index finger around a trigger guard...