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Room Sulkers. Looking his most bulldoggish, and giving a jaunty thumbs-up salute. Welensky stormed into London last week, prophesying ruin and anarchy if his warnings were ignored. Asked if he would use federal troops to prevent the secession of black-dominated Northern Rhodesia, Sir Roy replied, "the only time one would use force would be to maintain law and order. One would not stand by and see things smash. But if you are asking me whether I would use force to keep the two Rhodesias together, the answer is no, because it would not work...
...finally it is society that has the last laugh. Several years after Johnnie dies, Sallie learns that people had (falsely) accused them of incest. Even Sallie Collins can't laugh off that one. "Aren't people darling? Aren't they lovely?" she asks. "They's managed to ruin all the fun Johnnie and I had together all those years. Just think, I was married twice and had two children before I began to grow up." It took public humiliation to destroy Sally's innocence...
...buildings have been built over so many protests. Esthetes argued that it would ruin the view down Park Avenue (it does). Commuters were fearful that it would overtax already swarming Grand Central Station. Argued Yale Professor Vincent Scully: "Except for brute expediency, it shouldn't be there at all." It was suggested that the site be used for a park instead. Wolfson agreed, but added conclusively: ''Who can afford to dedicate a $20 million plot to a park...
Almost proudly, Kennedy said that his tax program is under attack "from both the right and the left." The unspoken conclusion was that the program must therefore be pretty good. And anyone who opposed it would be helping to bring economic ruin upon the land. If there is no tax cut. claimed Kennedy, then "the country will, in the not too distant future, be struck by its fifth postwar recession, with a heavy loss of jobs and profits, a record-breaking budget deficit, and an increased burden of national debt...
...novels. Miller admires Durrell generously, but learns nothing from him and remains his own adolescent. The young Durrell revised The Black Book for the fourth time in a manful effort to "demillerise it." But when Miller's Sexus was published, Durrell cabled him: "SEXUS DISGRACEFULLY BAD WILL COMPLETELY RUIN REPUTATION UNLESS WITHDRAWN REVISED." In an accompanying letter, he scolded his master: "The moral vulgarity of so much of it is artistically painful . . . The new mystical outlines are lost, lost ... in this shower of lavatory filth which no longer seems tonic and bracing, just excrementitious...