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...sequence as creative as the transforming of the traffic jam in Roma from urban ugliness to post-industrial beauty, a change much more convincing than anything in Amarcord. In Roma it was the way of seeing that made something beautiful; in Amarcord, it is the thing itself. A peacock flies onto a snowdrift and opens its fan. In a dense early morning fog a young boy wanders through a grove of trees which have assumed eerie, deformed shapes. The child's way of seeing, like his way of judging the height of the snow, is objectified instead of being shown...
...second Willard, built on the same site in 1901, was just as successful. Washington's society strolled through its "Peacock Alley"-the 85-ft. lobby corridor of green and bronze with cream-colored columns. When Alice Roosevelt, Teddy's saucy daughter, wanted to smoke in the dining room, the waiters obligingly shielded her table with screens...
...loyalty to his wife. A story called Poor Koko tells of a sort of casual Marxist burglar who amiably loots the guesthouse where a pedantic writer is staying, then, like a Manson of letters, coolly destroys the writer's notes and manuscript for a book about Thomas Love Peacock, a 19th century writer of burlesque romances (who is, incidentally, one of Fowles' favorite writers). The Enigma, a marvelous piece of illusion, describes a London police sergeant's search for a paradigm of Establishment life in the form of a conservative M.P., who has, perhaps deliberately, disappeared...
General Ches nut said many people were light hearted at the ruin of the great slave owners. He quoted some one: 'They will have no Negroes now to lord it over! They can swell and peacock about and tyrannize now over only a small parcel of women and children, those only who are their very own family...
...world. Nowhere is the pace of change faster than in Iran, the ancient empire ruled by this week's TIME cover subject, Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, "King of Kings, Light of the Aryans." This is his third appearance on TIME'S cover since he came to the Peacock Throne in 1941. Using his overflowing oil revenues, the Shah now hopes to make Iran "the Japan of the Middle East" and a force in world politics. Filing the main reports for this week's cover story were Beirut Bureau Chief Karsten Prager and Correspondent William Stewart assisted...