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...hasn't the right to his own cliche, who has?" asks C. P. Snow in the preface to his latest novel. A good question, rougher than he apparently realized. For though Snow meant it to apply only to the title of Corridors of Power, which sneaked into print years before the book itself, the question spotlights the strength and weakness of his whole novel and of his entire Strangers and Brothers sequence, of which this is the ninth volume. Corridors of Power is the capstone of the sequence so far; it is on balance a very good novel, which...
...Spanish concern with raw materials. Says he: "We've got to get our hands on it-the Spanish sensuality. We're sculptors in a way." When he feels that he is sketching too precisely, Suárez works with his left hand just to make it rougher. His work brutally flattens torsos and landscapes in a grotesque Goyagony that invites the eye to probe...
When the measure finally reached the House floor last week, the going was even rougher. For three days a bitter battle raged. Trying to placate enough of their Southern colleagues to produce a majority on the final roll call, Democratic leaders found themselves giving ground both to segregationists and states'-righters. Thus an amendment, by Mississippi's Democratic Congressman John Bell Williams, requiring loyalty oaths of all youths enrolling in the bill's job corps, passed 144 to 112. And the House upheld the Senate's gubernatorial veto provision...
...second half was more of the same, only rougher, and 20 penalties were called, 11 against the Crimson. "That's the way they treat their dates, too" a coed shuddered, as a Dartmouth stick collided with a Harvard rib cage during one melee...
...match marked with rough tackles and even rougher loose scrums, the Rugby Club fought out an 11-11 tie with the New York Rugby Club Saturday...