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...their annual conference at Brighton last week, the Tories debated their future. During the speeches and the votes, the man who will have most to do with that future sat silently on the sidelines. But little escaped his clinical blue eyes and card-index memory, and this week Iain Norman Macleod, 47, goes into action as new chairman of the Conservative Party, bringing with him the kind of dynamism that wins elections...
...atlas, which includes a 160-page index, is at its best in its superb relief maps. In addition, each large area of the planet is shown, by means of color photos of a specially built globe, as it would look from a point several hundred miles out in space. The technique gives, for instance, a sense of the almost landless expanse of the Pacific with a vividness that could be duplicated only by taking an ocean voyage or reading Conrad. Throughout the book, geology is used to explain geography. Below the map for Florida, for example, is a diagram demonstrating...
...official forecast for today is, "Increasing cloudiness and not so warm. Light rain beginning in afternoon. Tonight cloudy with rain." The CRIMSON takes this to mean a warm, cloudy, muggy, and generally uncomfortable day (you know, high discomfort index), clearing by evening...
...political, have accompanied the growing sense of student community. Of these, none is more committed to accurately and strengthening the current of among the students and young professionals than New University Thought. A handsome quarterly published at the University of Chicago, NUT is a far more thorough and perceptive index of student activity than and political magazines which have recently found the new generation so enthralling...
Beyond this, Riesman has touched a gnawing fear that Arthur Brodbeck captures brilliantly, "What is felt throughout the volume is an overpowering and painful sense of loneliness in American society. It is not so much that a great deal is said about loneliness. There are listed in the index rather disappointing references to only five lean remarks about loneliness. Yet the mood haunts almost every page, like an insistent and sorrowful background music...