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SOMETHING OF AN ACHIEVEMENT, by Gwyn Griffin (284 pp.; Holt; $4.95), suggests, as do a great many other contemporary British novels in this, the sahib's foulest hour, that the Pax Britannica was kept by boobs, boors and brutalitarians. British Novelist Gwyn Griffin is a onetime army officer in Africa who showed in By the North Gate (TIME, April 20, 1959), that he can turn his major dislike into minor but flawless literary art. Now he returns to the attack with the story of Cecil Spurgeon, a tired, self-pitying status-keeper in a coastal enclave of empire...
Foul, inly foul, yea foulest upon earth...
...Mayor of London. It is one of those rich character parts that Kilty has made his specialty. The role further contains what is perhaps the largest repertory of oaths and insults ever assembled (mostly hurled at the cobbler's poor wife); Kilty manages to make them sound like the foulest words in the language (in fact some of them...
...simple as that." This was certainly plain speaking. Eden went farther, accused Britain's ally, Greece, of fomenting much of the trouble. "It is certainly contrary to the whole spirit of NATO," he said, "that one of its members should seek by radio propaganda of the foulest character, directed from its capital month after month, to stir up terrorist activity in the territory of another. There can be no confidence, still less friendship, while this continues. "It is sometimes suggested that a NATO base on Greek soil should suffice for our needs. This is not so." There might...
...says. He is keeping his program limited in the hope that, unlike earlier and more grandiose schemes for abolishing the favelas, it can be carried out. His three-part plan: 1) stop the growth of favelas by preventing construction of new shacks; 2) destroy the few flatland favelas, the foulest of all because the sewage in the open ditches does not run off; 3) "civilize" the hillside favelas by providing them with police protection, free medical services, schools, electricity, sewers and running water...