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Humphrey asked about anti-Semitism in Russia. "Why," said Khrushchev "my own son married a Jewess." Khrushchev boasted about his full mobilization seven-year roadbuilding plan: "Even a philosopher becomes a better philosopher if he goes out and works with his hands." Humphrey brought up the touchy subject of Russian relations with Red China. "Ah " said Nikita Khrushchev, "you are subtle and clever, leading me into talking about these things." But he talked at length said he was not worried about Red China left Humphrey with the impression that he feels superior about the Chinese. Humphrey got the idea that...
Again the novel's narrator is Darley, a seedy, itinerant Irish schoolteacher. Again the plot concerns his sexual and soulful involvements with Justine, a feline Egyptian Jewess; Nessim, her millionaire husband; Melissa, a tubercular Greek dancer. There is also an assortment of other exotics, who seem to have crawled from beneath a blistered and immemorial stone of Alexandria-Scobie, the transvestite policeman; Toto de Brunei, who dies with a hatpin rammed through his brain; Capodistria, the goatish sybarite; hare-lipped Narouz, who carries a severed head in his saddlebag; Pursewarden, who has discovered "the uselessness of having opinions...
JUSTINE, by Lawrence Durreli. Not to the taste of every literary palate but a special delight for those who can savor the sensuous, the sensual and the unsavory all at once. The heroine is a sex-surfeited Jewess in Alexandria who does not understand herself, in or out of bed. The reward for the reader is an unforgettable impression of both the oddly exciting and sordid sides of a Near Eastern city...
This extraordinary novel is a sensuous and beautifully written hymn to the "postcoital sadness" of mankind. The heroine, Justine, a slum-born Jewess of great beauty, marries Nessim, a Coptic millionaire, who suffers her infidelities in silence. Nearly every male in the book and at least one female have a try at "awakening" Justine, but she is the sort of woman "who makes her body accessible to one and yet who is incapable of delivering her true self-because she does not know where to find...
Perfume & Frog Fat. Stalin rewarded the Hammer by showering his family with favors. Madame Paulina Molotov (her revolutionary name is Zhemchuzhina, meaning a pearl) is an olive-skinned Jewess, who looks a little like the Duchess of Windsor. She was born in the Ukraine, "the poorest of the poor," but as the Premier's wife,* was soon gaily commuting from a stylish glass-and-steel dacha on the Moscow River. When Stalin issued his famous Diktat-Let us be gay, Comrades-the Pearl was appointed boss of the Soviet Perfume and Cosmetics Trust. "My husband works on their souls...