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When The Key was published in Japan, the obvious question was: Is it pornography or literature? A little of both, perhaps. What gives it distinction is the author's astuteness in observing a human crisis, his grave, almost solemn tone, and his simple, carefully considered prose. Author Tanizaki has created his effect without employing even a hint of the D. H. Lawrence vocabulary...
...time has come," the mayor said, "for the leader of the New York County Democratic organization to step aside." That solemn declaration from New York's Mayor Robert Wagner, who had been nervously clearing his throat for some time, launched the big offensive to throw out Tammany Boss Carmine De Sapio (TIME, Jan. 13). It was a major step toward prettying up the party and, more practically, toward uniting the long-feuding New York Democrats so that they could band together under Kennedy auspices to cut Republican Governor Nelson Rockefeller down to size when he runs for re-election...
...that the American people are strong enough, wise enough and resolute enough to accept a rigorous demand for harder, more intense national and individual effort." Echoed the Louisville Courier-Journal: "Challenge and direction are providing us with a sense of exhilaration, of purpose, even when they are accompanied by solemn warning...
...After a solemn five-day meeting of the Central Committee, they issued a communiqué that flatly reversed Chairman Mao Tse-tung's cherished plan to achieve a "big leap" in industry. Instead, the communiqué called for "appropriately reduced" industrial investments and urged "all sectors and occupations to step up support for agriculture" as "the foundation of the national economy...
Sense of History. In his address, John Kennedy told the nation and the world: "I have sworn before you and Almighty God the same solemn oath our forebears prescribed nearly a century and three-quarters ago." This sense of history, this understanding of the U.S. and its government as continuing institutions, gave strength to the Kennedy speech and underlined the orderly transition that last week characterized the changeover of presidential power...