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...DOCTOR FISCHER OF GENEVA OR THE BOMB PARTY...
...ongoing marvels of Greene's career has been his ability to restate his central vision so often while repeating himself so seldom. His latest novel continues this extended performance splendidly. No one familiar with his fiction could possibly mistake Doctor Fischer of Geneva for the work of anyone else or conceivably stop reading the book because it feels familiar. As uncannily as ever, Greene extracts surprise from the inevitable...
...arbitrarily as it deprived him, life suddenly holds out a reward. He meets Anna-Luise, a beautiful woman 30 years his junior, and falls in love. More amazing still, she loves him in return. The sole threat to their happiness is the possible opposition of her father, Doctor Fischer, who earned his immense fortune by inventing a toothpaste called Dentophil Bouquet. Jones visits his prospective father-in-law and learns with relief that the doctor seems utterly indifferent to his daughter's plans. Only after the wedding does Fischer do anything at all: he invites Jones to a dinner...
Greene characters do not make such remarks casually, and Jones quickly finds himself a spectator at a perverse theological banquet. Doctor Fischer's party consists of the host heaping humiliations and abuse on five wealthy guests, who have undergone this treatment many times before. They endure and come back for more of the same because Fischer passes out handsome gifts at the end of each dinner. "For several years now I have been studying the greediness of the rich," he explains to Jones. "They'll do anything to get their presents for nothing." And so, he goes...
...this week's cover story on the people who hold the key to any lasting Middle East peace, the Palestinians, TIME'S editors drew on reporting by many of our bureaus, especially those in the region itself. From Jerusalem came files not only from Bureau Chief Dean Fischer but also from two people who, Fischer says, help make his post a "private seminar on the Middle East dilemma." One is Correspondent David Halevy, a native Israeli who has reported for TIME since 1969; the other is Nafez Nazzal, a U.S.-educated Palestinian who was born on the West...