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...found playmates. World War I had started, and its cold realities made his adventure fantasies seem suddenly childish. For several years he was relatively happy. Yet it was too late, for his vocation had already been imposed on him: "the mad enterprise of writing in order to be forgiven for my existence...
...himself an invitation to Bonn to meet Chancellor Erhard. Object: trade and propaganda, both of which Khrushchev sorely needs. Peking promptly charged Khrushchev with planning to sell East Germany down the river. This is hardly an immediate danger to Puppet Walter Ulbricht, though anxious East German bosses might be forgiven for wondering...
...outsider might have been forgiven for thinking that the sudden spate of problems constituted a severe blow to the new Prime Minister's prestige and a considerable test of his strength. They did, up to a point. But Shastri took the attacks with bland equanimity, explaining that there was no point in getting overexcited-or even in shouting back at his foes. "Democracy would break down if we started shouting from the benches," he shrugged...
...Hundred Dollar Misunderstanding wa Kitten, a 14-year-old Negro prostitute with sharp claws, bite and goofy charm In this inevitable sequel, Kitten is a much tamer puss. Taking her-and himself-too seriously, Author Gover hai decided to preach as well as to profit Readers will be forgiven if they decide by page 75 that it has all been a $3.95 misunderstanding...
...love that dare not speak its name has become the neurosis that does not know when to shut up, and the reader may be forgiven for receiving glumly the news that still another fictional treatment of homosexualism has been published. And, in the case of Radcliffe, despite a fitful display of considerable writing skill by young British Novelist David Storey, the gloom is justified...