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...work, it is "true," true in the sense that it coheres in a vivid, living life of its own within the book, and true in serving as an affecting illusion of the way we wish things were. We all wish, decadents that we are, that we could imitate the languid laconic cynicism of Brett and Jake and Bill Gorton; we all wish, stout hearts that we think we are, that we could argue as honestly with ourselves as Robert Jordan or the Old Man of the Sea. Heming-way's answers may be shallow and short-sighted, blindly idealist...
Eleanora's aura of mature respectability, pitted against Jean-Louis' young yearnings, lends low-key drama to her languid, libidinous surrender. The violence in Summer comes with a hellish, heart-halting air raid at film's end, in which green-and-golden youth agonizes over red-and-black realities of war. The slaughter awakens in Trintignant compassion and duty; his suffering loses him Eleanora but gives him manhood...
Desai's mistake was to try to get elected deputy leader of Parliament, a post vacant since the death last March of Home Minister Govind Pant. Desai, though his manner is languid, has won a wide following among Congress Party moderates (he dismisses Marxism as "a bunch of misguided theories"), and as deputy leader he would have been clearly in line for the top job. But Defense Minister Krishna Menon rallied the leftists behind gregarious Railway Minister Jagjivan Ram, 53, the only Untouchable in the Cabinet and a longtime Nehru disciple...
BOTH admen and advertisers got their lumps from the British-born president of Lever Bros, of Canada, John C. Lockwood, 48. He told Toronto admen that their industry's output was "dull boring, unimaginative, uninspiring and languid" and that "the biggest hidden cost in marketing today is probably ineffective advertising." Contrary to many TV critics, Lockwood thinks advertisers pay "too little attention to their TV commercials and too much attention to the programs." Phony commercials Lockwood fears, have made cynics of housewives and schoolgirls alike will have "far-reaching detrimental effects" on the ad industry...
...first stop, Thailand, where the 59-year-old Indonesian's hobbies are by now well known, the King and Queen whisked him off to languid Chiang Mai, where 300 maidens danced prettily for the visitor. When ex-Beauty Queen Rajadaporn Srivichai proffered an orchid, Sukarno gallantly reciprocated with his own silk handkerchief. "You should enter the Miss Universe beauty contest," he told...