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...sunshine reached down through Britain's gloomy House of Commons last week and glanced brightly off a pale gold wedding ring on the hand of a young Negro in the visitors' gallery. It was a fortuitous spotlighting of a matter then before the House: under sharp debate on the floor was the political consequence of the gleaming wedding ring...
...Chosen Race. A stodgy Boer with a pale, square face and thick, white hands, Daniel Malan is the self-appointed high priest of the Afrikaners and of apartheid. He was born 78 years ago on a Cape Province farm called Allesverloren ("Everything Is Lost"), and attended the same Sunday school as his lifelong public enemy: Jan Christian Smuts, South Africa's greatest Prime Minister. Smuts, who fought the British in the Boer War, lived to become their best South African friend; Malan, who never heard a shot fired, is a violent Anglophobe...
...work out that way. With tired, angry shoppers comparing gripes by the hour, the queues became the focus for popular discontent. Last week, before 500 leaders of the Peronista Women's Party, Evita Peròn, looking pale and thin after her operation, took back her husband's blessing on queues and instead pronounced a curse. "Queues," she said, "must be destroyed. We have to get control of the streets. We have to eliminate the enemies...
...heroine's actual stream of consciousness. Mr. Morton has a naturally florid style, and his exploitation of the descriptive powers of the English language leads him into a gaudiness of analogy and description which is especially ill-adapted to hectic first-person narration. ("It was a terrifying thing, a pale apple-green cloud, like a carbuncle in the anthracite...
...Europe, as in the U.S., Hamsun went hungry. One day he walked into the Copenhagen office of Editor Edvard Brandes, who later wrote "I have seldom seen a man more derelict in appearance. But that face! . . . The expression on his quivering pale face haunted me." The manuscript Hamsun gave Brandes was the story of a writer starving to death in a big city. Published as Hunger it brought Hamsun world recognition. Other novels followed. They were written in a simple, austere, almost laconic style, but with passages of high lyricism and great narrative power. European critics found...