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...agreement) passed it on to the Reporter. I did not see the interview before it went into print. If I had, quotations from it which have appeared in TIME could never have been imputed to me, since they contain opinions which I have never held, and statements which no sober man would make and, it seems to me, no sane man believe. That statement that I or anyone else in his right mind would choose any one state against the whole remaining Union of States, down to the ultimate price of shooting other human beings in the streets...
...Manhattan's staid Hotel Plaza, paused between stomping and fingernail-castanetting to reminisce about his roving life and good times. One of diminutive (5 ft. 6 in., 125 Ibs.) Dancer Escudero's closest barroom buddies was the late, bibulous portrayer of Montmartre, Maurice Utrillo. Was Utrillo ever sober? Snorted Escudero: "Ah, poor Maurice! When not in his cups he would fall down, so he sought to avoid sobriety at all costs!" Is Escudero's pal, Painter Salvador Dali (on hand at the Plaza opening with his antenna mustache attuned to the wild Spanish rhythms), a fraudulent...
...Exposed Risk." At week's end the most sober and considered contribution to the debate came from Dr. Geoffrey Fisher, the Archbishop of Canterbury, who sits in the House of Lords. Said Dr. Fisher: "It is important for the government to realize that it is in terms of sacrilege that much foreign opinion is viewing their action." He revealed that he had once written Makarios asking him to denounce terrorism. Makarios had replied: "I am sincerely afraid that an official condemnation of events by myself would not find at the present stage the necessary response, but would involve...
Demolishing a Window. Comic or sober, Author Powers cannot avoid that slight tinge of spiritual arrogance that is implicit in judging one's co-religionists-Catholic, Protestant or Jew-rather more severely than others, because they have ostensibly had a greater light while the rest of the world presumably flounders around any which way. The unrelaxed tension in Author Powers' stories is the pull of the real against the ideal. In an earlier book, Prince of Darkness, he found a salient image for that tension in a priest eating his breakfast: "He jabbed at the grapefruit before...
...published more than 80 books under 20 names, including a sober study entitled When France Occupied Europe (1792-1815). Consequently, when he makes Caroline an eyewitness to Napoleon's retreat from Moscow, he knows what that eyeful was. Every page of Secrets is dotted with the stock characters of romantic fiction-dashing lieutenants, gallant generals, evil-faced spies and slimy turncoats-but Saint-Laurent trots them out with verve, gives them real jobs to do. The most dignified historian might respect Saint-Laurent's dramatic, spine-freezing account of Boney's awful homeward trudge, which would teach...