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...Goudge novels few are ever spared. For hundred of pages, battles sway to and fro indecisively-allowing ample space in between for dispatch riding, witch hunting, potion brewing, gypsy camping, idol smashing and other 17th century pastimes. Acting as spy for Charles, Lord Leyland falls in love with Froniga's (Parliamentary) niece, then falls victim to a gypsy beauty (mother of three cute little bastards named Dinki, Meriful and Cinderella) who hexes him with thorns stuck in his wax image. At death's point Francis is rescued by Yoben, who proves to be a disguised Roman Catholic priest...
...Pack of Janitors. 1957's S.F. rests on a much frailer human base. Most of its stories explore the fantastic world of outer space with characters of a type unknown today-inhuman humans subject to telepathy, telekinesis, multiple personality, and an infinite capacity for shifting to and fro in spacetime. As characters, they are deader than the planets they visit; as explorers, they are about as intrepid as a pack of apartment-house janitors. Samples...
...Humphrey, in white tie and tails, exulted in his triumph as a handsome hit, allowed as how he had it over Florida's George Smathers and Massachusetts' Jack Kennedy, the two acknowledged best-looking men in the Senate. George Smathers scarcely missed a dance, raced to and fro between his table (for a hasty sip of Scotch) and the dance floor. Idaho's young (32) Freshman Senator Frank Church, ambushed into a dance with Washington Society Hostess Gwen Cafritz, gasped: "Gee whiz...
...Broad Street Station. Across the square under the arcade of city hall, dozens of men, wrapped in newspapers, slept. Panhandlers and a few night-shift apple-sellers stood on corners. A bus from upstate unloaded job-seekers; a bus for upstate loaded job-seekers. Soggy streetwalkers drifted to and fro in a depressed market. The Negro concluded the conversation: "After all, the very most we can hope for is complete political, economic and social equality with the white man." Then, gazing at the Hogarthian scene, he added, not derisively but with compassion: "And look at the white...
John K. Galbraith, professor of Economics, fro studies of the interplay of economics and politics in American life; Carl Kaysen, assistant professor of Economics, for studies of British policy and experience in industrial organization; Harold P. Levene, lecture on Applied Science, for studies on wave propagation; Francis P. Magoun, Jr. '16, professor of English, for studies in the technique of Finnish oral poetry...