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Lost Leader. What was worse, the inadequacy of the changes seemed to have loosed the pent-up criticisms of Eden's first seven months in office. There was dissatisfaction with the government's failure to deal with the Cyprus rebellion. Its domestic measures have often seemed halting, uncertain and blundering. "There is a terrifying lack of authority at the top," wrote Commentator Henry Fairlie in the pro-Tory Spectator. "It becomes more and more clear that, contrary to what many Conservatives said, Sir Winston Churchill was far more important as a directing, energizing, initiating force than even...
Intelligence About Intelligence. In Montreal, picked up after he had committed 59 offenses, Charles A. McNaughton was described in the police report as "a brilliant intellectual who releases pent-up emotions by slashing white-wall tires with a sharp scissors...
...black devil they see lurking and smirking in the lowliest handyman, and satisfies the Negro's revenge fantasies by permitting him to be what the white world has dinned into him that he is, a would-be rapist and killer. According to Author Baldwin, the Negro's pent-up hostility shows up in far stranger places, e.g., the rock-'n'-roll sects of the Harlem storefront churches where his late father used to preach. Says Baldwin: "Religion operates here as a complete and exquisite fantasy revenge: white people own the earth and commit all manner...
When Einaudi was in Buenos Aires, he found the revolutionary sentiment still strong among the students. There was a tremendous release of pent-up hatred of Peron, and the streets were often full of people talking until 10 p.m. Students were also interested in queueing up with other citizens to view the displays of the jewels, furs, sportscars, and other luxuries of Juan and Eva Peron. But even more than demonstrating and looking at remnants of an old regime, the students want to establish a solid democracy, Einaudi feels. As one student said, "We want all of this...
...prisoners pent behind the grim stone walls of the old prison in the little Normandy town of Pont-l'Evéque were an unimaginative crew-mostly drunks, chicken thieves, wife-beaters and petty racketeers-and their prison life was as dreary as their crimes. Then, on a certain hot afternoon in July, a new warden took over. Pert as a pouter pigeon, rotund little Fernand Billa was a jailer less interested in penology than in poetry and strong pastis (a variant of absinthe). With plenty of verses and good drink to hand, Billa could find even a prison...