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...friendly, with sad eyes, huge ears, and long tails. They play the role of impersonal participants in the action of life, and are likened by many to the chorus in Greek tragedy. They represent normalcy in contrast to man. "My conclusions entirely support the theory that dogs have a saner family life than people," the author states. They do not mask their feelings and regiment their emotions. (For full treatment of this theme see Is Sex Necessary...
...broad sense there was no saner warning to U.S. policymakers at week's end than Dulles' own press conference advice: "If we try to outdo ourselves in the spectacular, then we are leading the world in a very dangerous way indeed." To this Vice President Richard Nixon added, in an interview filmed in Washington and televised in London: "History shows that the road to war is paved with conferences that failed...
STRANGE EVIL, by Jane Gaskell (256 pp.; Dutton; $3.50), is a saner but less fascinating novel. It reads a little as if Alice had blundered into the court of Pierre Louÿs instead of the Red Queen. The book abounds in bare-breasted courtesans and tall, flashing-eyed men, many of them wicked. Most of the action, described in lavender prose, takes place in fairyland, which is reached by springing lightly off Notre Dame de Paris. The heroine, for reasons probably most obvious to a 14-year-old girl bent on writing a naughty novel, is a nude model...
Barbara Ward declared last night that a perpetual Cold War situation could never lead "toward a saner world society" and urged that the Western nations take the initiative in offering specific plans to ease local tensions throughout the world...
...Democratic Party to resume the executive direction of our national affairs. Second, I am assured that my candidacy would be welcomed by representative people in and out of my party throughout the country. Third, I believe any citizen should make whatever contribution he can to search for a safer, saner world...