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...readers, Antonia, 44, has compiled Love Letters (Knopf; $8.95), a tender anthology of 135 amorous notes dashed off through the centuries by lovers of distinction. Sample sweet nothings: "You are a wretch, truly perverse, truly stupid, a real Cinderella. You never write to me at all," a peevish Napoleon scrawled to Josephine from Verona. "Your slim gilt soul walks between passion and poetry," wrote Oscar Wilde to his lover Lord Alfred Douglas. Complained Benjamin Franklin to his platonic French friend Mme. Brillon: "You find innumerable faults in me, whereas I see only one fault in you (but perhaps...
...which we want to get rid of," he remarked, "but the great intangible machine of commercial tyranny which oppresses the lives of all of us." It was not the machine but its owners who converted skilled into unskilled labor. When Morris advocated "simplicity," he was not calling for a peevish and cloistered asceticism but for a clearing away of inessentials. "I demand a free and unfettered animal life for man first of all: I demand the utter extinction of all asceticism. If we feel the least degradation in being amorous, or merry, or hungry, or sleepy...
...Percy's questioning is something else. Simply by asking whether flaccid tolerance is not as brutalizing as rigid in tolerance, he raises the kind of issue that good fiction can most thoroughly show in the round. Despite its occasional reediness of tone and a bitterness that seems more peevish than profound, Lancelot makes an entertaining run at high seriousness. It is easy to read and hard to forget. Paul Gray
...Gerald Ford. Said Carter: "Ford is a good automobile. It is not doing too well in the White House-stuck in the mud, four flat tires, out of gas, gears locked in reverse." The stridency of his attack offended many voters. At the same time, Carter was growing more peevish with the press, and he began to withdraw...
...general tone of the meeting, especially as it related to loans, the IMF and the World Bank, left most Third World delegates in a peevish mood. India's Finance Minister C. Subramaniam reflected the view of most of the poor countries: he dismissed talk about reducing deficits and snuffing out inflation as "rich-country prescriptions" and demanded more power for developing states in IMF and World Bank decisions...