Word: friends
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...QUICK AND THE DEAD, by Thomas Wiseman. In this skilled, unsettling novel, a European half-Jew, haunted by decidedly unorthodox memories of a youthful acquaintance who turned Nazi, probes the past to learn why, even in death, this adversary-friend still dominates his life...
...becoming a household word, Spiro T. Agnew learned that lampoonery is the most devastating weapon in the political armory. "Look what's happened to me," the new Vice President complained to a friend shortly before the Inauguration. "Six months ago I was a fairly popular and successful Governor. Now I'm being called the village idiot...
...official coffee break or park in the boss's parking place occasionally. For women, "overly strong perfume works well in many cases." Should instant promotion threaten, more extreme action can be taken. Creating the impression of a sordid personal life is an excellent ploy. Arrange for a friend to telephone at the office, suggests Peter, and then within earshot of several co-workers cry out, "Don't tell my wife. If she finds out this will kill her." The hint of scandal ought to scotch any chance of promotion...
...plucky South Korean government is under constant threat from the Communist North, and so its fears about spies are justified. Still, Yun insisted that he had gone to East Berlin only to inquire about an old friend in North Korea. His illegal "espionage" trip had been merely to examine a 4th century tomb at Nangnang, which was to be the locale of Butterfly Widow, the second part of Dreams. Unimpressed, a Seoul tribunal sentenced him to life imprisonment; it gave his wife a three-year term, then suspended it and allowed her to return to their two teenage children...
...Benavente has lost some of his iconoclastic punch over the years. It is no longer shocking to talk of a matchmaker who makes matches for money, but it is still extremely funny to portray her. The swashbuckling Captain, always bursting into snatches of Italian opera and clapping his friend Harlequin on the back, makes you nostalgic for the good old days when the army was never a sick joke but a funny...