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...that the U.S. would probably not be in this predicament had it let Britain, France and Israel finish off Nasser at the time of Suez. Montana's Mike Mansfield, acting Senate Democratic leader, and Arkansas' Bill Fulbright wanted the U.S. to act through the U.N. in some sort of joint effort. Finally, House Speaker Sam Rayburn spoke up: "Mr. President, what I want to know is, do you realize the implications of the step you are taking? I want to ask, if you go this far, are you prepared...
...that he had come to power to bring political freedom and a better economic lot to Egypt's miserable millions: he would be a benevolent dictator until democracy was possible. The hundreds of foreign visitors who met him over the years found him reasonable, courteous, smiling, earnest, the sort of young man who listens to learn. There he sat, charming, soft-voiced and plausible in his little Cairo office with the eight telephones. Whatever his radios might shriek, he was one Arab leader who could even talk quietly about Israel...
Barth has a good ear for the sort of psychologizing claptrap that passes for conversation in some circles. The earnest talk of the three academic friends is a comedy of manners in itself-almost on the level of Mary (The Groves of Academe) McCarthy or Randall (Pictures from an Institution) Jarrell. Barth is clearly one of the more interesting of younger U.S. writers and he has produced that rarity of U.S. letters-a true novel of ideas...
...Island, where there is plenty of sun, sea, sand, sex and susceptibility. Through the dazzle of hot days and perfervid nights moves Sally Pierce, a golden-glowing, nubile 19-year-old whose life is complicated by the fact that her divorced mother has remarried. Stepfather Andrew Wells is the sort of pipe-smoking, tweedy adult to make a Radciiffe girl's heart do nip-ups. To complete the idyl, there are two other men: Chris, a callow college graduate; and Chadburn, a hesitant illustrator. The question: Who will get Sally? The answer: nearly everybody...
When Sally is not bounding from bed to bed, she is asking the sort of defiant, wide-eyed questions that, in fiction anyway, have such a devastating effect on grownups. She is also a determined kiss-and-tell girl, and after sleeping with her stepfather, endlessly discusses the affair with other members of the household. Mother proves the most understanding of the lot, but young Chris is outraged. Says he: "You're too much for me. You look so normal, but you're as mixed up as any of them!" To prove his own normality, he abandons...