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...paint mountains, but their inner anatomy; he could see demons in the cheeriest of scenes, could find menace lurking inside the most ordinary object. His world was like the nursery of an overimaginative child to whom every fleeting shadow on the wall is a dragon or a ghost...
SOME HUMAN ODDITIES, by Eric J. Dingwall (198 pp.; University Books; $6) and GHOST AND GHOUL, by T. C. Lethbridge (156 pp.; Doubleday...
...mangrove stood out black against Key Largo's garish blue sky," the novel begins, and the readers can almost see the ghost of Humphrey Bogart standing under it, whistling for Lauren Bacall. Josee goes off with a Chris-Craft skipper named Ricardo, then presents her husband with a cake bearing a single burning candle-"to celebrate the first time I've been unfaithful to you." They separate in New York, after roaming Harlem until dawn and finishing off the adventure in "a small, deserted bar on Broadway"-a foreign fictional figment which, as every bag-eyed nightclubber knows...
...Western Thailand, whose territory is guarded by U.S. troops, and neutral Cambodia, whose territory is scarcely guarded at all, are both neighbors of embattled Laos and South Viet Nam. But in this part of the world, the god Siva can still seem more important than the ghost of Karl Marx, and what goes on in the Red guerrilla-infested rain forests less urgent than the news from the Jungle of Love...
These theoretic limitations of the Bill aside, there is still much to object to in Kennedy's attempt to conjure with the ghost of Bright. The Free Trade philosophy is not an American growth, for the simple reason that America is not a trading country. Last year, America's trade amounted to only three per cent of her GNP; England's exceeded fifteen per cent of hers. (This helps explain why the unprincipled British will trade with Rel China; America can afford her high-minded refusal to do so.) Even if an expansion of exports were the only effect...