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...impotence too, though the beautiful Victoria, a collector of lovers, works tirelessly to cure him. Nicholson's tale is not so much a novel as a collection of loosely related fiction riffs, but it does not suffer at all from its lack of connective tissue. His imaginings are always peculiar, frequently droll, and on several occasions funny, about car freaks, salesmen, book critics, sex and the alarming sort who acquire the complete works of novelists. Worth collecting; first editions available...
...wish for such a fate? Call it my own peculiar disease. But somehow, memories being memories, I don't think that...
...impotence too, though the beautiful Victoria, a collector of lovers, works tirelessly to cure him. Nicholson's tale is not so much a novel as a collection of loosely related fiction riffs, but it does not suffer at all from its lack of connective tissue. His imaginings are always peculiar, frequently droll, and on several occasions funny, about car freaks, salesmen, book critics, sex and the alarming sort who acquire the complete works of novelists. Worth collecting; first editions available...
...work by Seymour-Smith belongs to that peculiar subspecies of biography in which the author seems less intent on etching a life than on erasing previous lives: he is obsessed with discrediting earlier biographies. Hardy in recent years has been the subject of two substantial portraits, Michael Millgate's and Robert Gittings', both of which bathe him in a cold, harsh light. Seymour-Smith strives "to see how much gaiety and good humor coexisted in Hardy, with the too celebrated gloom." That's a noble-sounding goal, and yet the paradoxical result is dispiriting: a spiteful-seeming attempt to prove...
Other priorities are more peculiar to Helms. According to a staff memorandum obtained last week by TIME, Helms has chosen some personal priorities: to examine whether to fold the Foreign Service into the civil service; to reconsider Washington's relations with the U.N.; to do away with the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency; and to investigate whether foreign aid could be replaced by the Overseas Private Investment Corp., a federal agency that helps U.S. capitalists make investments in developing nations. Helms can also be counted on to ride several other hobbyhorses: his hatred for all communist regimes, including China...