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This, thought Denmark's Communist daily, was too good to overlook. The ambassador's "escapist" party, crowed Land og Folk, pointed an ugly moral. Said Land og Folk: "It makes one think of other festivals where aristocrats amused themselves by dressing up as plain peasants -that was in the period preceding the French Revolution [when] the people of Versailles fled from reality into a rustic idyll . . . [Today again] exploited masses are rising and claiming their right-but our aristocrats do not want to hear...
...pilgrimage, a gathering of stamp collectors and ; congress of 500 women athletes. Scott-King's companions include a battered newspaperwoman, a law professor substituting for someone else, a Swiss scholar who wanders into the hills and is murdered by partisans. Since the British government has no official knowledge og Scott-King's presence in the country, his is compelled to leave by the underground disguised as a nun, and is at length deposited at a small Mediterranean port among various royalists, anarchists, Pétainists, terrorists, ex-Gestapo men, Italian airmen, Turkish prostitutes, Hungarian ballet dancers and Portuguese...
...Lieutenant,' b Denis Fodor, is a humorous tale. It mixes the tensions og guerrilla fighting in the mountains of Greece with the comedy that is in the pointlessness and incongruity of war. The Government's peasant soldiers are dupes not because they are going to be killed, but because their officers intend to bring them back safely without having fought a battle, and the war turns out to be a great practical joke, on which the Americans who are giving the Greeks their weapons are also victims. Fodor writes so well and develops his plot with such quiet skill that...
...buildings aren't any bigger than those in Cambridge, and I like red brick. And Mory's is smaller and dirtier and darker and more crowded than Jini's or the OG. And anyone can sing "From the tables..." even if they aren't from Yale. And the parties aren't any gayer, and the martinis are just as bad, and the smoke is no bluer...
...work for their M.A. or Ph.D. degrees; office girls take our courses in typing, shorthand, etc. The results are varied and interesting. Not long ago one of our OBs left to become an instructor at Amherst College, another went to South America to be a professional wrestler, an OG blossomed into a Conover model, and an OB who had departed to become a monk returned because he found that life too quiet after the corridors of the TIME & LIFE building...