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...World is used to shocks, but it will sit up and gasp at this. The crime illustrates that gangdom in the United States is now virtually in control."--London Daily Mirror...
...Lady Willmott Lewis (daughter of President Frank Noyes of the Associated Press, wife of the London Times's Washington correspondent) had been reported threatened. But the Burns and Pinkerton detective agencies reported no increase in orders for private protection. The U. S. Press and Public had not ceased to gasp at the enormity of the Lindbergh case, yet they seemed confident that their country remained as civilized as it was on Feb. 29. Agitation in the Congress to have interState kidnapping made a Federal offense had died out completely. If many people realized that the Lindbergh kidnapping of 1932 must...
...Auslander wants to stake a claim to the title of American Jewish literature’s bona fide “bad boy,” his most compelling credential might be that he’s—gasp!—a college drop-out. After leaving school, Auslander rose through the ranks of a New York advertising agency. Somewhere along the way, he appears to have acquired a knack for writing in 30-second sound-bytes...
...tally proved to be nothing more than the Saints’ last gasp, however. Though Harvard could not manage an insurance goal—the Crimson hit the post twice from long distance in the final minute—St. Lawrence did not seriously threaten to tie the score...
...with The Comfort of Strangers, I came to the end of something," he says. "I had been in the grip of the last gasp of existentialism, writing about people adrift in cities that are not named. Now I want specificity. Maybe it's a function of aging. I feel as if I've got less time left; I want to make sense." Not perfect sense; his later novels, like The Innocent, Black Dogs and Enduring Love, are still full of absurdity and enigma. But the characters have a more full-blooded life. Combine that with McEwan's companionable mind--strange...