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...Assembly, he remarked recently: "Just because the President was elected for seven years in 1969, does he expect the French people to stand rigidly at attention the whole time?" In another speech, Mitterrand acidulously expressed his hope that if the leftist coalition wins, Pompidou will not act like "a maiden with the vapors" when "he finds himself in a democratic country again...
...idea of Wolfs book is developed. This is the notion that the force of Stoker's novel derives from the sensual repressions of the Victorian Age. Of course he is correct. The fantasy of a tall intruder in evening clothes bending over the naked bosom of a sleeping maiden must have been delicious. He might have gone further. The Middle Ages believed matter-of-factly in vampires, and the 19th century was thrilled by fictional ones. There has been a small spate of vampire books and films of late, but except as a soggy bit of low camp, Dracula...
...maiden effort last August, LaVelle told Tribune readers that the McGovernites were driving off workingmen in droves. He professed himself and his colleagues unmoved by the youngsters who rallied to McGovern's cause: "The blue-collar Hell's Angels are hoodlums; the upper-class Weatherman et al. are idealistic 'kids,' who are never idealistic enough to demonstrate on campus for mine safety after the live burials of their lesser peers in cave...
...CUNARD WHITE STAR QUADRUPLE-SCREW LINER QUEEN MARY 340 pages. New York Graphic Society. $19.95. A facsimile reprint of The Shipbuilder and Marine Engine-Builder souvenir edition, which was first published in 1936 to commemorate the maiden run of Britain's most beloved seagoing queen. Staggering in its detail: deck plans, photographs and descriptions of machinery, interiors of accommodations. A brief, highly literate biography carries the great liner through World War II service as a troop transport (it accidentally rammed and sank a British cruiser in 1942), and into its sad second life as a tourist attraction in Long...
...position." Though he phrased it a bit more elegantly, Disraeli offered several equivalents of "You won't have Disraeli to kick around any more." Both men returned more than once from the political dead. Dizzy was defeated four times before he finally was elected to Parliament. His flowery maiden speech was greeted with gales of laughter and catcalls. Prophesied an enraged Disraeli: "I will sit down now, but the time will come when you will hear me." He had to wait so long to become Prime Minister that nobody thought he would make it. But at 63, he reached...