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...Frontier? This whodunit is essentially a whydidit. The man who delves into the twisted personality wreckage of the past is the stodgy self-effacing ("I am something of a square") narrator of the novel to whom Mason Flagg was a prep-school idol. Complicated flashbacks reveal that Mason Flagg is something of a heel, the hybrid product of a $2,000,000 trust fund and an incestuously possessive mother. By his 205 he is braining his wife with stray crockery, and swapping bedmates at Greenwich Village parties that Author Styron stops teasingly short of describing...
...stagy, often garish, and outrageously flattering to his subjects; but he was also an ideal mirror for an age whose ideal was elegance and whose idol was Beau Brummell. In a sense, Lawrence was more honest with his time by painting it in all its blatant vanity-not as it was, but as it wanted...
...machine will not obey tomorrow's masters. It will fool them, like Author Olesha. While the bosses will expect it to work mechanical marvels, "What will it actually do, their idol, the machine? It will sing our love songs, the silly love songs of the dying century, and gather the flowers of the past era. It will fall in love, become jealous, cry. dream...
...assassin went free, his story still untold. During his trial he insisted that his name was Jacques Mornard, and claimed to be a Belgian Communist who had supported Trotsky in his bitter feud with Stalin. Why, then, had he killed him? Because he had become disillusioned with his onetime idol. Sentenced to 20 years, the prisoner clung stubbornly to his story, even though Mexican authorities were able to prove he was actually a Spaniard named Ramón Mercader, a convinced Communist who fought on the Loyalists' side in the Spanish Civil War, was later enrolled in the Soviet...
...devoted most of his adult life to serving Syngman Rhee. Lee first met Rhee in the U.S. soon after graduating from Iowa's now-defunct Tabor College in 1924. When Rhee returned to newly independent Korea in 1945, Lee became his private secretary, grew so close to his idol that three years ago Rhee adopted one of Lee's two sons. He became, successively, mayor of Seoul, Defense Minister and, in 1954, Speaker of the Assembly. Defeated by John Chang in the 1956 vice-presidential race by 200,000 votes. Lee ran again at Rhee's orders...