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Widespread arrests of Selassie's former aides have left the Emperor friendless as well as powerless. His official function reduced to ritual approval of the military's reforms, Ethiopia's "King of Kings" has little to do but attend daily services of the Coptic Church, visit his aging pride of lions in cages on the palace grounds, and walk his pet Chihuahua...
...have savored love and father hood but still too young for the restlessness and self-recrimination that often accompany the onset of middle age. It is difficult to think of rebellious cells fanning out through his body, turning his blood to water. For Sandy, whose life suddenly becomes a ritual of babysitting arrangements and hospital visits, death infiltrates past the eggshell phrases of doctors, through false hopes, the increasingly embarrassed concern of neighbors, and even such things as her sudden piercing awareness that there is less laundry...
...SOVIET UNION. For all the ritual pledges of allegiance to détente in both Moscow and Washington, the Nixon Administration's dealings with Russia face tests in several tricky areas. In Europe there are the plodding negotiations on East-West political relations in Geneva and the talks on NATO-Warsaw Pact force reductions in Vienna. The promised expansion of U.S.-Soviet trade is hung up principally on Senator Henry M. Jackson's opposition to a bill granting the Soviets most-favored-nation trading status. Jackson demands a Kremlin commitment to further increases in emigration of Soviet Jews...
London's Daily Telegraph saw the resignation as "an unconscious act of cleansing and renewal, with Richard Nixon as the ritual sacrifice, embodying all the less reputable aspects of [America's] rumbustious democracy. Even the festering remains of the Viet Nam hangover are included in the general exorcism, despite the fact that in this case it was Mr. Nixon who was the doctor who brought about the cure...
...Lake is often lovely in its diaphanous scenes - a nighttime ritual of catching fireflies, for example. In this translation, at least, it is also sometimes disagreeable and unsettling. One passage in which Gimpei gets a massage in a Karuizawa bathhouse reads eerily like Arthur Bremer's diary, in which he described a visit to a Manhattan massage parlor some time before he started stalking George Wallace. There might be a good doctoral thesis in the psychological relationship between the literary and the political creep in the late 20th century. Kawabata could not offer any further advice for it, however...