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...sportswriters were a little less primeval. Scornful of The Rock's rule-busting violence in the ring, they still saw the match as a triumph of phony showmanship and unscrupulous exploitation. Said the New York Daily Mirror's Dan Parker: "As shameless as a jackal gorging on the remnants of a lion's breakfast kill, Al Weill, that distinguished promoter of international good will, is already talking of a return bout between Rocky Marciano and his Monday-night abattoir victim, Don Cockell. There having been no reason for the first match, except a grossly commercial one, there...
...called to restore order. In the eye of the storm, yet seemingly untouched by it, was astute, crusty and supremely confident Prime Minister Shigeru Yoshida, 75, whose friends and admirers call him the ablest and most important figure in today's Japan, and whose foes call him a "shameless dictator...
...Escape. "At first, confused and shocked by shameless profusion and almost shamed by generosity, unaccustomed to such importance as they are assumed, by their hosts, to possess, and up against the barrier of a common language, they write in their notebooks like demons, generalizing away, on character and culture and the American political scene. But, towards the middle of their middle-aged whisk through middle-western clubs and universities, the fury of the writing flags . . . And in their diaries, more & more do such entries appear as, 'No way of escape!' or 'Buffalo...
...very disappointed to see that TIME had at last gone over to favoring McCarthy. After months of indicting him for the shameless deceiver that he is, you credit him (March 1) with real achievements...
...chronicle of three characters in search of a parent, its use of knowledgeable servants and titled sinners, its display of highborn eccentricity, its going in for shameless interruptions at climactic moments, The Confidential Clerk is the glaringly legitimate offspring of Gilbert & Sullivan and Oscar Wilde's Importance of Being Earnest. Its tone, moreover, is often as artificial as its plot is absurd. But plainly, Eliot's bantering is only skin-deep; plainly his "Who am I?" is no mere parlor game, but a cry from the heart; and his reshufflings of parentage involve revelations about life. Beneath...