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...some of them right away. Asked by an interviewer to comment on the recurrent linking of his name with those of Beckett and Borges: That play-wright and that essayist are regarded nowadays with such religous fervor that in the triptych you mention, I would feel like a robber between two Christs. Quite a cheerful robber, though. On Hemingway:...I read him for the first time in the early forties, something about bells, balls, bulls, and loathed, it. Comparing youthful expectations with elderly realities: At fifteen I visualized myself as a world-famous author of seventy with a mane...
...Nothing has been triumphant but cynicism." Stanford Law Professor Anthony Amsterdam worries whether justice can possibly be done when the criminal evidence has been held up for so long by those who might be guilty. "It is as if in a bank robbery all evidence were given to the robber to hold for two years before trial...
...look good, he fired him. During the FBI investigation brought on by Cain's dismissal, it was discovered that, while on the sheriffs staff, he had helped the Mafia smoke out a suspected stoolie in its midst by having a lie detector test administered privately to five bank robbers-for the benefit of the Mob. One robber flunked the test; he was later shotgunned to death, presumably...
GRIMM'S FAIRY TALES illustrated by Arthur Rackham. 128 pages. Viking. $6.95. A predictable score of Grimm old favorites (samples: The Fisherman and His Wife, The Robber Bridegroom) with color and black-and-white pictures from the 1909 Rackham edition. The original English translation by Mrs. Edgar Lucas is laced with "prithees" and "shan'ts." (The flounder says to the fisherman, "I shan't be good...
...pure moonshine. Since then, he has bolstered his argument considerably while extending his inquiries to other works of preliterate man. He peered through temples along the Nile with his guide Gamel, "the quintessence of experts - an Egyp tian Egyptologist," and roamed the deserts of Peru with Palacio the grave robber. To avert unpleasant dietary sur prises, Hawkins stuck to an "expedition diet: beer, bread and stews boiled and bubbled to sterility." Surprises some times defied even this regime, however. In Cuzco, a tea prescribed for altitude sickness turned out to be brewed from cocaine...