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Pictures in the Louvre. That they did is the responsibility of one man-Charles Andre Marie Joseph de Gaulle, 72. His ability to bring a skillful influence to bear upon events should be enough to send a believer in impersonal historical determinism back to his books. Tall and ungainly, so...
Philip Roth, who is Updike's age, is to some extent his opposite. At 26, he won the National Book Award for Goodbye, Columbus, a collection of skillful satires of Jewish life in the U.S., about which the principal reservation of critics was that it would be hard for...
Thus the door was slammed on Britain, but was it finally barred and bolted? De Gaulle is too skillful a tactician ever to be trapped in an absolutely rigid and negative position. Even his acrimonious Paris discourse contained the hint that Britain might be welcomed in the Common Market in...
The wage question could be settled if, for example, Mayor Wagner revived Mayor La Guardia's old "locked room" policy--locking negotiators up together in a hotel room until they come to an agreement. For the wage issue only requires sound and skillful negotiating. However, the Mayor has been characteristically...
The next day the Harvard star, who was also studying for a statistics exam, faced Canadian champ Smith Chapman, who had beaten him in Canada previously. Niederhoffer got the jump on the fast and skillful Chapman, keeping him up front in the court. The match went to 2-2 in...