Word: latters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Henry Greenwood, head of a kind of latter-day British East India Company, is in a running fight with his fellow officers to liberalize the company's treatment of its Hindu employees. Armin Wensley is a multilingual young Foreign Office expert bent on improving Anglo-Indian understanding. Laura Johnston is a ravishing brunette who prefers Armin to her busy Blimp of a husband...
Where he could have contributed something definite, Mr. Halberstam instead prefers to indulge in vague propositions such as"...the whole state was aroused against the crime, and anxious to see justice done." The first part of this statement is highly conjectural, while the latter part begs for definition. What does he mean by justice? Wasn't justice promulgated when Bryant and Milan were exonerated. Many white southerners would think so. The bare and ugly fact remains that there is no such thing as justice for a Negro in the South if we interpret justice to mean a minimum amount...
...surprise move to ensure the successful merger of their organizations, the presidents of the College's two Conservative Clubs agreed behind closed doors last night to unify the Harvard Conservative League and the New Conservative Club under the latter's name...
...mate Elena Esposito; and movie star Lulu Meyers and her lover Sergius O'Shaugnessy, the narrator of the book. But interwoven into the story are Marion Faye--a pimp at 21; a homosexual movie actor; and a number of other perverted characters. In Mailer's moral code, however, these latter characters are destroyed, for only those who can find companions of the opposite sex are favored by the author...
...properly capricious, and her dresses are by Dior. Though Pierre Dux makes a fine Russian general, the rest of the cast is just adequately funny. Only Fresnay makes a great deal of his part, but the movie needs no more. With lots of music and love (the latter more varied) Paris Waltz is a pleasant time...