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The city of Paris' notorious Sante prison is a grim, rectangular complex of grey buildings peopled with waiting men. Most are waiting for trial in the criminal courts; a few are awaiting freedom and the end of light sentences too short to warrant sending them to departmental prisons; a...
TIDES OF CRISIS, by Adolf A. Berle Jr. (328 pp.; Reynal; $4), finds the mellowing (62) ex-brain truster of F.D.R. days conducting a mildly condescending seminar on the key events of the last quarter-century for the benefit of that global slowpoke, the U.S. public. Author Berle is most...
Television, which likes its plots explicit, has had little success adapting the misty works of F. Scott Fitzgerald, with their subtle concerns for class cravings, lost illusions and elusive ideals. But then, neither have the stage and cinema. In adapting Fitzgerald's frail short story Winter Dreams for last...
Zanies. The book is also a remarkably delicate story of the ups and downs in the lives of Leander's two sons, who find that their gentle mother and vigorous father have not exactly prepared them for the world beyond St. Botolphs. Lastly, it is a book peppered with...
A fancy ball in Washington. D.C. is just like a fancy ball any place else, except that it is bigger, more fully packed and-when heavily peopled with gay Louisian-ians-easy on the drawl. Last week such a ball bounced bright and noisy off the walls of the Mayflower...