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Because Mr. Angus Wilson is, among many other things, an acute chronicler of the Welfare State, he has incurred the unfortunate label of "traditional novelist"--the nastiest epithet in the current critical lexicon. Mr. Wilson's novels are by this means arbitrarily damned to comparisons with the matronly, jovial and encyclopaedic shades (respectively) of George Eliot, Charles Dickens and John Galsworthy...
...department-store lunch counters, downtown theaters, golf courses, libraries, and airport. Although located in a border state, Nashville is in many senses a Deep South city. It is not necessarily a placid place. Says a race-relations worker who has long traveled throughout the South: "Nashville can be the nastiest town I've ever seen." But Nashville (pop. 170,000) has unexpectedly taken its place in the vanguard of Southern integration...
...father's ranch in the Oklahoma panhandle, Penn Phillips was taught about the value of land. Says he: "The nastiest thing my mother ever said about anybody was, 'They're just renters.' " He gave up a chance at college to go into business, became a real estate man during the Florida land boom, moved to California in 1921, where he built up a stake selling lots. His biggest successes came after World War II, when he recognized that the logical outlet for California's pressing population was the desert...
...Canadian and Alaskan far north. Their cameras caught enough to make any naturalist drool with delight. A polar bear plunges into the icy Arctic seas to give vain chase to a frisky seal; cocky bear cubs attack a one-ton walrus and drive him from his perch; a wolverine, nastiest of all far northern beasts, shrugs off the dive-bomb attacks of an osprey to climb a tall tree and devour a fledgling. Most impressive scene of all: Photographer James Simon found a colony of lemmings (mouselike rodents that breed prolifically) swarming in panic because of famine, filmed them...
...think this is the nastiest business in the world," says Elizabeth Arden...