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Death & a Butterfly. Low Company is the most ambitious of the three novels, and has the muddiest sloughs and sheerest peaks. Here Author Fuchs moves deeper into the violence that ran through the first book. There it was business rivalry with an accidental killing; here it is war declared by a brothel syndicate on an independent operator named Shubunka. The war stumbles through the lives of innocent people, but the novel demonstrates that there is no "innocence": all lives are inevitably interwoven...
...Khrushchev continued to pour on the agony, the phoniness of Moscow's noisy piety became all too obvious. Canadian Opposition Leader Lester Pearson declared: "It is the sheerest hypocrisy to feign passionate anger and indignation" at "a crime common to all governments and inevitable in present circumstances." Adenauer observed: "Everyone knows that aircraft have been flying at high altitudes over several countries for years . . . I have knowledge that the Russians are flying over our territory as well." In Britain, former Ambassador to Russia Sir William Hayter reminded his countrymen of the embarrassing disappearance of British Frogman Lionel Crabb (TIME...
...size or importance can be transferred to the stage without forfeiting an amplitude that is half their strength, a personal accent that is half their essence. Look Homeward, Angel is one of the few, and the reason is clear enough: the novel's amplitude is often the sheerest excess, its personal accent the most rioting rhetoric. For all Wolfe's great gifts, his novel was too often diminished by a craving for size, impoverished by an orgy of word-spending, made shallow by a show of philosophy. What the book had pre-eminently to bequeath to the theater...
...always does, the mere thought of a crise de régime turned the talk to the ever-ready strongman, General de Gaulle. By the sheerest coincidence, the hawk-nosed wartime leader, now 66, chose last week to make one of his periodic excursions to Paris. Typically, De Gaulle's utterances had a Delphic quality. Said he: "You tell me that the political men of all groups are unanimous in affirming that only De Gaulle can find a solution. But name me one person who has said so in Parliament." Then he added: "I could not make peace...
...felt secure in their swamp-girded isolation and their simple faiths ("I wasn't much afraid," said one woman, "because the Lord told us he would never destroy this earth with water again"). Many of them stayed in their homes-and Audrey killed them in a day of sheerest horror...