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Grace Notes. Betjeman both likes and deplores the sad, cramped lives of city suburbs. His own life is cramped by book reviewing (London Daily Telegraph), a trade he detests, but he has managed some grace notes. His Berkshire country home is an old rectory in Wantage, birthplace of Alfred the...
Moreover, military regimes have an understandable tendency towards self-perpetuation, and are, in general, reluctant to give up power. Once in, it is almost impossible to dislodge them; when they do leave finally, the situation is not much better than when they took over. There is no lack of instances...
An occasional sharp observation strikes home: "Appreciation for the idiosyncratic is part of the Harvard mystique.... it goes with saying the idiosyncratic must never get too far out of hand." This sort of semi-ironical comment replaces most value judgements in the article. Reporter Boroff does not consider it his...
As well-intentioned as Mr. de Caussin's "explosive charge of thought" was, it is regrettable that his tragic plight lends emotional influence to his appeal. The ironical probability is that the man whose atrocity prompted such remarks would react with similar disgust to the sexual stimuli that Mr...
Several law professors agreed that it was ironical that a legal mix-up had "led to a social revolution."