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Last week all that changed in a donybrook fought, in the words of Poet Louis MacNeice, with "the soft-spoken malice, the ostentatiously throwaway display of inside information, the heavy-lidded, thin-lipped irony, the addiction to verbal arabesques, the exquisite verdigris of cynicism, that have traditionally characterized this city...
Roughly, the novel traces the rise to power and prominence of Cas Hauser--an amoral, homosexual, and nearsighted young man on his way up. His first decision is to be married, for he senses that a beautiful young woman who is willing to seduce his professors may be a social...
One of the disturbing aspects of the tragedy is the condescension that has seeped to the surface in the West. A glance at the topical political cartoons will show the score: the Congolese are stereotyped as fat, thick-lipped cannibals, running around with bones through their noses and cauldrons in...
The most important influence was Germany itself. Grosz saw it as a kind of hell. His Berlin streets were clogged with human monsters-fat, seminaked whores, bulbous businessmen, thin-lipped officers with monocles and Iron Crosses. Rape and murder fascinated him, and the death that hovers over sickbeds and alongside...
Protests predictably poured in from Japan and from nearby African states. Western friends and allies of France maintained a tight-lipped and rather testy silence, but the Soviet Union threatened to resume nuclear testing if "Western powers proceed" with atomic explosions. Red China added its own denunciation, saying that "world...