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Author Weidman, best remembered for his acidulous portrait of a diamond-sharp Jewish businessman in / Can Get It for You Wholesale, can still stamp the imprint of a heel on the printed page better than anyone else. But, though he knows his way around the jungle of a conniving city, he gets swiftly lost in the desert of the human soul. George Hurst's redemption is so pat and implausible, the world he aspires to so trivially empty, that readers may wish that Weidman's heels had no need to become heroes...
However, this is the first book of its kind, and it is one which succeeds in capturing the drama and the color of Mormonism. One of the main reasons for this success is the extremely well-written editors' introductions to each account, which seem to bear Mulder's stylistic imprint...
...case of Beckett's All That Fall. Since his Waiting for Godot, it is hard not to look at every succeeding lesser play as a lost opportunity for another masterpiece. Not that the new play is a total loss: many lines in it bear the authentic whiplash-imprint of Beckett's scathing wit or glow darkly with the grim beauty that only he commands...
Rather than being narrow, classical civilization extended for fifteen hundred years, included two basic literary tongues and the basic thought of almost every every sphere of human knowledge, and has left a profound imprint on all succeeding cultures. Both modern democracy and Marxist communism have their theoretical origins in classical thought...
...Hungary the Budapest radio feared that "certain revisionist circles" might try to take advantage of the situation and said that "necessary firmness must be displayed." Poland's Gomulka and Yugoslavia's Tito were plainly pleased: their "many roads to socialism" now seemed to bear the approving imprint of Khrushchev's pudgy thumb...