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...which Ian Brady had allegedly hacked a victim to death, Attorney General Sir Elwyn Jones opened the prosecution's case by recounting how the police had unraveled what the press has called "the Moor Murders." The break came, he said, when the two defendants staged a murder to impress David Smith, 19, Myra's brother-in-law, who had doubted Brady's boasts about his thrill killings. After witnessing the murder, Smith rushed home to his wife, then called the police. They searched the house that Ian and Myra shared in a Manchester suburb, found "a bundle...
Undergraduates' increasing "professionalism," the tendency to settle down to a major and stick with it through graduate school, has always stifled such experimentation. Desire to do well on generals and impress one's department begins early; students over-prepare within their concentrations. Courses of study are planned to satisfy Boards of Tutors, not intellectual curiosity. Pass-fail grading offers a way out of this deadly business...
...doesn't change much. He starts cutting classes carefreely, naturally. But it is some time before he even gets around to going to a motel with a pretty young high school girl, whose name, of course, is Margaret. Still, what with glorying in their wickedness and trying to impress each other, they finally curl up a good arm's length apart and fall asleep...
What MacInnes does best is write a literate and believable story of suspense. At 58, she is a member of a disappearing breed, a natural storyteller who attempts neither to spoof her readers nor impress them with literary pretension. Her sole concern is a good story, and her characters are neither clowns nor antihero supermen, but human beings...
...demonstration or a series of advances and retreats any real premise or portent for the future. But the free world could take some comfort last week from the loosely linked chain of evidence around the world that repressive regimes were losing rather than gaining ground in their effort to impress mankind that liberty, Communist-style, is the wave of the future...