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Romance came at last to Broadway Critic George Jean Nathan, 72, iconoclastic sniper-in-arms (in the '20s) of H. L Mencken. Announced Nathan, from Manhattan's Royalton Hotel, where he has lived as a bachelor for 48 years: he would soon marry wraithlike Actress Julie Haydon, 44...
East Germany, who has had its own Elite Guard of heavy-weaponed "People's Police" ever since an Adenauer army was a gleam in Dean Acheson's eye, has been much more subtle. The Volkspolizei wear Russian-style uniforms to give an illusion at least that the Fascist state has...
The Senate's questionable action came partially as the result of a shattered illusion. Visualizing Europe as an immense soldier to fight the Russian Bear, the Senators pictured EDC as a suit of iron-clad armor. When France refused to help make that protection, the Committee shut off dollar aid...
"Write!" snapped the Emperor, and instantly a flood of words poured from the imperial mouth-natural, conversational words spoken with such intimate intensity as to give the illusion that the recipients of the letters were entering the room one by one, hearing the Emperor's orders with their own...
Metaphysical Pingpong. Modern Italian Short Stories, compiled by Marc Slonim, is saturated with what Critic Cyril Connolly once called "the memory of physical pleasure, with sunshine and salt water, with food, wine and making love, and with the remorse which is the shadow of that sun." Serving up life as...