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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kozol is talking the language always learned and sometimes spoken by young people who don't get into bed often enough. He speaks quickly, with excitement and wonder, and it takes you no time at all to get from the snugness of a snow-dusted Maine cabin to the open opulence of a swank hotel in Barcelona...
...immense green stretches of vista, the tall poplar rows iridescent against the sky, the sensual green of the sunbathed leaves--and, then, the sudden blue swathe of the indescribable Loire, broad and slow and stately--moving with easy grandeur through the ancient terrain" seem hard to read. His lovers often speak in terms of "Whooooosh," "Buffle, Buffle," and "Squuunch," which are things you would have overheard through thin bedroom walls in the hotels of New York, Paris and Barcelona, had you followed their jet-paced trek...
...victims; who is a likely victim and who is not. He has spent the greater part of his time rejoicing in discovery. His rejoicing is good and sexy, stylish, sometimes overdone but good. In his next book I'd like to read more about the "system" we so often feel and so seldom really...
...girls are good reasons to live in town presents something of an enigma. Friendly, often a little too much so, they are nevertheless not very much better looking on the average than their Radcliffe counter-parts although the change of scene does something to a man's outlook...
Inept Ambassador Sears is followed by a ragtag succession of diplomatic incompetents. Many of these types undoubtedly have their counterparts in real life, but the authors weaken their case by often carrying ridicule beyond reason. A single minor Navy officer, for instance, is shown as preventing the Indian government from accepting U.S. atom bombs. Captain Boning supposedly is the only American technical expert at an Asian arms conference, and he ruins the whole show by giving a hesitant answer to a question about A-bombs that a bright high school student could furnish (the reason he is hesitant is that...