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...object is to predict-by attributing great significance to acts of meaningless trivia-when, if ever, Franco will restore the monarchy, and to whom, if anyone, he will give the crown. Franco plays the game, too, by scattering contradictory clues, and last week he was playing it with obvious relish. He allowed Spain's monarchists to organize a mass rally to greet Queen Victoria Eugenia at the airport, but restricted TV coverage to a 17-second film strip. He himself declined to meet the plane but sent his Air Force Minister. When he showed up for the baptism...
...impinges on 1968-in the aluminum façades of antiseptic buildings, in the whir of computers, and in the human automatons who face their drab jobs with all the relish of zombies. That at least seems to be the view of Sebastian, a film that attempts to analyze the mind-numbing effects of a Pentagonal bureaucracy on a brilliant civil servant...
...Lawrence, Faulkner, Mailer, Julio Cortázar, Jorge Luis Borges. This time Fuentes also works in some sarcasm about the Mexican ethos, particularly his country's lively relationship with death and all its trappings. Mythology and symbolism are planted in conspicuous places for those readers who relish those forms of mental exercise, and there is enough sexual activity to maintain interest through the long, cold tussles with radical existential philosophy. Once again onanism is used to reflect the spiritual isolation of the age, and sodomy is seen as an important portal to self-awareness...
...Mayor of Boston. The risk was a great one but White probably realized or at least sensed the sharpness of Davoren's desire to replace him and also sensed Quinn's quietly seething ambition to become Speaker of the House. White also was aware that Davoren would probably so relish the prestige and elegance on White for his interference. Indeed, on his election as Secretary, Davoren beamed to reporters and legislators, "My cup runneth over...
Northerners and the pliable, easygoing Southerners. There are signs that the Viet Cong have become resentful that North Viet Nam took over direction of the war, and they do not relish being the horses for Hanoi's knights. The essential difference is that Hanoi still hopes to outlast the U.S. on the battlefield, but the Viet Cong seem somewhat more amenable to compromise and coalition. A most realistic prospect would be for Washington to encourage appeals to the regional patriotism of the Viet Cong, aiming for them to negotiate a separate peace...