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...took the state senate for the first time since 1893. In Illinois they control both houses for the first time in 36 years, in Ohio for the first time in 15 years. At times it seemed as though any Democrat could beat any Republican. In Illinois an obscure civil servant named Robert T. Lane defeated Jack Walker, a former speaker of the house. W. Robert Blair, the present speaker of the Illinois house and a man who had been mentioned as a gubernatorial candidate in 1976, went down to defeat in a traditionally Republican district...
...Occupation then represents a gap in two centuries of bourgeois rule in France, a kind of servant's ball when outcasts can enjoy power for the first time and aristocrats can regain it. On this level, Lucien is a victim, rejected by a society that then turns around and kills him for joining its opponents. His decisions are never ideological; he is killed not because he is immoral but because he is amoral, not because he has made the wrong decisions but because he has made no decisions at all. The people responsible for Lucien's alienation are responsible...
Sharpe's characters are not so much etched in acid as flayed. The liberal college master glibly invents the slogan ALTERATION WITHOUT CHANGE. A longtime college servant muses, "Wog's in the Empire were different from wogs outside it and wogs in the Fox Club wasn't wogs at all or they wouldn't be members." There is a TV commentator whose carefully developed public image is that of a "lenient Jeremiah." Perhaps best of all, Sharpe presents a graduate student memorably beset by lust. Too diffident to ask for contraceptives in drugstores (where the clientele...
Voters in Middlesex County, which includes all of Cambridge face a clear choice for Sheriff in Tuesday's election. Republican incumbent John J. Buckley has been a progressive and independent public servant. Buckley has instituted a series of impressive reforms in the County's penal system, including conjugal visits, inmate furloughs, and vocational training...
Here, Peter Finch, splendid in a cardinal's red robes, plays a humble servant of the Lord who is torn and tantalized when Christina pops up hi the Vatican. Having renounced the crown of Sweden, she announces: "I'm dedicating my maidenhead to God." After all sorts of religious examination and psychological probing, Finch must confront the bitter truth: he himself has taken a powerful interest in what she has offered to the Lord...