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...take Paul Barstow (the new Howard Hallam), a morose and lanky bird of prey, who is somehow at once the hangingest judge in England and--the proper Shavian combination--a silly old fool.] Sir Howard, naturally, is one of Lady Cicely's first successful take-over bids, and Barstow succumbs with the proper air of well-bred petulance. Then there's Robert Chapman, who, as Captain Hamlin Kearney (an American naval officer devised to fill up the last act), suffers such an astounding sea change as to be almost unrecognizable. Kearney is the last of Lady C's successes...
...into sewers. They can make nutritious and palatable cattle feed out of fish offal or cannery wastes. Some time in the future they will probably move into the great petrochemical business, replacing the clumsy high-temperature processes that are used now. Petroleum is organic, says Beckhorn, and a natural prey for enzymes. It should be fairly simple to find special enzymes to turn petroleum into perfume, plastic or cocktail canapes...
...state. He lacked money. Nearly all U.S. aid for the northeast went to the federal government's SUDENE (Superintendency of Northeast Development), whose aim was long-range development. On a visit to Washington last month, Alves argued that he needed help right now; his starving people were easy prey for the militant, Communist-led Peasant Leagues sweeping Brazil's northeastern states. Returning home, Alves visited President Joao Goulart, eventually won his agreement to bypass federal channels. Moscoso himself was convinced after a few days in the impoverished backlands. Said Alves "We are starting...
...enough his health was never better. There is no more demanding job in diplomacy than representing the U.S. in what, ideologically at least, is enemy territory. The grimy, grey ten-story U.S. embassy is always under siege. From nearby apartments all visitors are watched. The embassy staff is permanent prey for Soviet plainclothesmen (even children's outings are sometimes shadowed by police), and telephone "bugs" in offices and homes are taken for granted. Though social contacts with Russian officials have become easier in the Thompson years, the tiny (about 200) U.S. diplomatic colony still lives and works in oppressive...
...with elaborate manners and morals, and it was James's purpose to smoke them out. No other modern writer has so deftly exposed man's savagery beneath his civilized veneer. "James saw [the world] a place of torment," his personal secretary Theodora Bosanquet wrote, "where creatures of prey perpetually thrust their claws into the quivering flesh of the doomed, defenseless children of light. He saw fineness sacrificed to grossness, beauty to avarice, truth to a bold front. He hated the tyranny of persons over each other...