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World as Wilderness. Muggeridge is compulsively nasty to politicians, whatever their party. "Macmillan," he wrote, "seemed in his very person to embody the national decay he supposed himself to be confuting. He exuded a flavor of mothballs." Churchill, whose writings were "gaseous and overwritten," became a "kind of totem." In his old age, he was "produced as totems are, to keep up tribal morale." As for liberalism, said Muggeridge, it is "really just a death wish. We liberals are so made that anyone who wants to murder us is a hero and anyone foolish enough to be on our side...
...Domain. The map of the U.S. publishing world is divided into three unequal sectors. The largest consists of text-and reference books-chiefly encyclopaedias-which account for 50% of book sales and most of the industry's profits. Some firms devote themselves largely to this field. Qrqwell-Collier & Macmillan, one of the giants, does an annual business of $142 million. The second sector, where profits are just as reliable, is religious publishing; the Bible steadily sells 30 million copies a year...
...THREE BANNERS OF CHINA by Marc Riboud. 216 pages. Macmillan. $12.50. Another objective glance at Red China, including visits to Buddhist caves, a girls' dormitory at Kunming University and a Peking divorce court. The pictures were taken last year; and, since Riboud, a French journalist, spent four months in China in 1957, he is informative on the contrasts and changes since then. In sum, he sees it as a land that would be a hell for Westerners but bearable for Eastern peasants. The Chinese are constantly exhorted to read the works of Mao Tse-tung daily, and Riboud offers...
...outside Washington, Johnson's quarters were equally shipshape. On the walls of his three-bedroom suite, the same one he had occupied after his gall-bladder surgery 57 weeks earlier, hung paintings of his birthplace, boyhood home and ranch, along with framed quotations from Abraham Lincoln, Harold Macmillan and the Roman consul Paulus, all upholding the axiom-one that is not writ large in Lyndon Johnson's copybook-that a leader who wastes too much time on his critics has little time left for leadership. Across Wisconsin Avenue, the lights were out and the Venetian blinds lowered...
Perhaps the best thing about this production is that it isn't just a foil for two virtuosi. Kenneth Macmillan's choreography, a mixture of classical ballet and freestyle, tells a story, not an easy thing to do in the case of Romeo and Juliet. It is hard for mutes to establish the family relationships involved, and when a letter is delivered they can indicate that it contains bad or good news but not what news. Nevertheless, Macmillan makes the plot clear and moving. When the stage is full for the crowd scenes, he coordinates the whole corps de ballet...