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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With the end of the war came in creased rumblings of independence, and with them the appointment of Nehru as acting Prime Minister. Nehru's wife had died in 1936, and he summoned his beloved Indu (meaning Moon) to come to Delhi as his official hostess. Over her husband's...
Bland Tradition. Now Professor Claude R. Hitchcock, a member of Dr. Wangensteen's own surgery faculty, reports that the Wangensteen treatment is not much good. At best, says Dr. Hitchcock in the Journal of the A.M.A., it is no better than traditional medical management of duodenal ulcers-meaning antacid...
Contemplating the glory that is-or should be-France, Charles de Gaulle is sensitive about the fact that his country's businesses, though wealthy enough, are not very large when measured on an international scale. His government has consistently urged French firms to merge and thus come closer in...
What is missing from this novel is not the author's expert hand, but his heart. All Greene's best novels testify to his own obsession with the meaning or the meaninglessness of life, to his own quest for bearings along the ambiguous border between good and evil...
If Capote had only presented a bare history, colored with reportorial irony, In Cold Blood would be merely suspenseful and provoking non-fiction. But it is a novel, for Capote, with singular grace, hovers between profound irony and melodrama--the irony of collision and the drama of a not inconsiderable...