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...these spirited short stories, Sillitoe's characters command a rich dialect in which the underdog facetiousness blurs but does not hide wary resentment or cynical despair. In their softer moments, they would like to live like their betters-ride bikes, wear cloth caps, eat fish and chips, play the football pools, and watch the telly on a paid-up set. For those simple pleasures of the poor, sex and the bottle, they have the same words: they "have a bash...
...working language of the OAS meetings was Spanish, their version was correct, and suggested that U.S. Envoy Martin, who does not speak Spanish, was confused. At first, the diplomats considered using the word discutir. But a Spanish-language purist objected that discutir implied argumentative discussion. Thus negociar, a softer word that means both discuss and negotiate, was substituted. Unconfused, Ed Martin at no time committed the U.S. to formal negotiations. He did, however, make a special point not to rule out treaty changes coming out of the discussions...
AUSTRIAN EXPRESSIONISTS-St.Etienne,24 West 57th. A good peek at the southerly, softer version of Teutonic expressionism: 67 watercolors, drawings and prints by Oskar Kokoschka, Alfred Kubin, Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, Oskar Laske, L. H. Jungenickel, Anton Faistauer, and Herbert Boeckl. along with a rare Self-Portrait by the late gifted Richard Gerstl, the second work of the posthumously discovered artist ever to be on view in the U.S. Through...
...seen within. And when he turns on the times, his bite is bitter: "Give us a bit more comfort! That's our battle cry now. All the ingenuity of men, which was harnessed for so long to nobility and beauty, is now bent on finding something a bit softer to put under their bottoms. Contraptions to make our drinks cooler, our houses warmer, our beds softer. It's disgusting...
Along with the pleasures and some of the problems of the good life, West Germany must face a number of other realities. Konrad Adenauer tried to shape reality into what he wanted, and by sheer will and political genius he usually had his way. Under the softer, more flexible and more amiable leader ship of Ludwig Erhard, some long dammed-up changes are bound to burst forth. One of them is the feeling...