Word: slumbrously
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...zone of the spirit is Stefan Kanfer's Fear Itself (Putnam; 215 pages; $12.95). Set for the most part in Europe, New York and Washington, his novel is a deeply felt portrayal of Nazi savagery, the specific horror of the Holocaust, the courage of the few, and a slumbrous, insensitive America. It is largely the story of Niccolo Levi, a talented young Jewish actor who, by late 1943, has joined the underground in his native Italy because, as he says, "nobody promised anything except survival, which is what an Italian Jew did best...
...Soft & Slumbrous. Whisking into Manhattan, Nehru was the honor guest at an honest-to-gaudy, cushy stag luncheon for 500 bigwigs and local politicos given by Mayor Robert Wagner (who valiantly intoned that "You do us signal honor . . . on your brief sojourn," solemnly proposed a toast to "the President of India"). He got his ear bent by loquacious Governor Averell Harriman, who introduced the Prime Minister to pin-neat Tammany Hall Boss Carmine De Sapio ("Carmine-I was just telling the Prime Minister here about you . . ."). His balding head glistening, the flower in his buttonhole lazily depetaling, Nehru wadded...
...slumbrous, easy-going Siam the gentle comedy of deposing King Prajadhipok as Absolute Monarch and reinstating King Prajadhipok as Constitutional Monarch was wafted to its close last week...
This is the story of the fountains. Here is the superior detachment of '95, the sweet, sad memories of '28, the slumbrous indifference of '35. And with whom does the Vagabond range his forces? There can be but one choice, but one loyalty--with '28. '95 is too old and '35 is too young, but we, in our time, we have known. Give back the Cambridge heat, the long drawn chuckle, and the water sparkling in the moonlight. The Bourbons have gone, but the Lily remains. Guy Fawkes is dead, but they hunt him out each year in quivering candle...
...left the Tribune, excited M. Franklin-Bouillon fairly snarled at still slumbrous M. Briand: "FRANCE WILL NO LONGER BE DUPED...