Word: leonard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...LEONARD NOVICK...
...Refusal. With Vientiane secured, the coup leaders confronted irate foreign diplomats, all of whom wanted nothing more than a return to the neutralist status quo, no matter how shaky. In from Saigon jetted William Bundy, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs, to join Ambassador Leonard Unger in protesting against the coup. Some people, notably neighboring Thailand's strongly anti-Communist government, were delighted by the prospect of a right-wing regime in Laos; but the U.S. argues that such a government simply could not maintain itself in power. The Reds, who were at least theoretically members...
Even though Hunt has greatly increased its investment lately, Canada Dry President Roy W. Moore Jr. still says flatly that he does not want Simon as a director or merger partner. Over at A.B.-Paramount, which this week will announce a 20% rise in first-quarter earnings, President Leonard Goldenson also readied for possible battle with Simon by increasing his own holdings in the company from 56,443 to 70,000 shares. Simon may try to win at least one directorship at next month's annual meeting, says ominously that "we have friends with still more stock...
...novelist loses control when Leonard falls under the influence of Victor Tolson, a muscular, mindless working-class homosexual who lives in the housing project that surrounds the Radcliffe mansion. Tolson lurks about the shrubbery like the hound of the Baskervilles, and sexual symbols parade through the paragraphs wearing sandwich signs. Superfluous minor characters become infected with the author's garrulity, deliver portentous sermons, and then drift off to irresolution. The dry prose becomes dewy. There are long, dare-taking sex scenes of the kind that, in he-she form, would seem overwritten in a Frank Yerby novel. Storey...
What is left when the scenery stops falling? Well, the book can be seen to be an enormous, lavender metaphor: Leonard is soul, Victor is body, opposed in unnatural self-division. The most pompous piffler since Colin Wilson takes 376 pages to plumb this irrelevancy to its wuthering depths. One vote for Mailer...