Word: greenes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Born. To Art Arfons, 39, new land speed-record holder, who drove his jet-powered Green Monster at 576.5 m.p.h. last week to recapture the record that Craig Breedlove had taken from him only five days before (TIME, Nov. 12), and June Arfons, 41: their third child, first daughter; in Akron, Ohio...
Eyewitnesses to Fu's execution are baffled when the corpse count of London's foggy Limehouse district shows an alarming upswing. The victims are strangled with crimson Tibetan prayer scarves, the weapons favored by "a gang of Burmese dacoits." Scotland Yard Man Nayland Smith (Nigel Green) thoughtfully eyes the wall where a death mask of his sworn foe hangs as a trophy. "I dreamt that Fu Manchu was still alive," he muses. "I've been uneasy...
...books (Under the Mountain Wall, The Cloud Forest) about his expeditions there. Now at last the scientist and the artist have collaborated to achieve a large and powerful novel that is simultaneously a tale of violent adventure and a parable in which modern man finds religious rebirth in the green womb of nature...
...GREEN by Iris Murdoch. 31 1 pages. Viking...
...Green, her ninth novel, is neither her best book nor her worst, but it is a revealing showcase for her wares. In writing a story of an Irish family during the tense week before the abortive Easter rising in 1916, she is perfectly at home with her surroundings and impressively knowledgeable about her history and the Irish character. The plot, if there is one, is not important, and Author Murdoch does not make the mistake of trying to make it so. The uprising fails somewhat comically, and nothing is changed much-not even the family caught...