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...villa overlooking Lake Neuchâtel, with Mont Blanc gleaming like a picture postcard in the background, a sedentary, stout Swiss just turned 41 lives contentedly with his wife, three children, and a collection of dogs and cats, and turns out some of the most wry and bitter writing of this wry and bitter time. Friedrich Duerrenmatt is best known for his unsettling play The Visit, in which a vengeful old lady manipulates the greed of a whole town to make its respectable citizens collaborate in the ritual murder of her former lover. In The Deadly Game, a traveling salesman...
...heavy cost in faithfulness-belong to the Italian government, which occasionally runs off a new edition to the profit of the treasury. The prints produced in this "Piranesi industry" sell for around $15 each, but "the result is about as true to the original as a picture postcard would be," says Salamon. The merit of the Turin exhibit is to let viewers see prints from Piranesi's own time, distinguished by the lightness of line of the newly etched plate (and valued in the thousands...
...recent "postcard incident" serves as an excellent example. Two mistakes were made. First, the people were described in terms they could not bear, and secondly, it was erroneously assumed that postcards are read only by the intended receivers...
...feel that the incident regarding Miss Margery Michelmore's postcard has been blown up out of true proportion. I have heard many African and other foreign students, as well as visitors, giving talks to American church people and other groups regarding poverty in their countries...
...week arose former U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower-to deliver an ill-tempered rebuke to a 23-year-old girl. Ike was exercised about Peace Corps Member Margery Michelmore, who had committed the sin of writing accurately about the primitive conditions that she had seen in Nigeria and having her postcard fall into the hands of leftist Nigerian students.* There was, cried Eisenhower, "postcard evidence" that Peace Corpsmen "did not even know what an undeveloped country...