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Incense to Idols, by Sylvia Ashton-Warner. Proving that the power and insight of her first novel, Spinster, sprang from an exceptional talent rather than from mere autobiographical circumstance, the New Zealand schoolteacher dazzlingly describes an amoral and shatteringly beautiful pianist for whom men-except for an unbending, God-obsessed minister -queue up to destroy themselves...
...thought Freud was going to cash the full 100,000 kisses. Work came first, she became "beloved old dear," and as his family grew, Freud tooled off on solitary holidays to Italy. He was better at fathering (six children) than at being a father. At 17, Daughter Sophie sprang her surprise engagement on him, and Freud only inquired with middle-class prudence about the young man's financial condition. When this same daughter died of pneumonia eight years later, he bore the tragedy with a typically stoic detachment he himself recognized as chilly: "As a confirmed unbeliever I have...
...Doha, capital of Qatar (pronounced gutter), gaudy pink, green and gold palaces sprang up around the huddle of malodorous mud hovels; one vast pile, reserved for the visiting heads of state, was equipped with air conditioning and window curtains operated by pushbuttons; the outside walls of the Sheik's own palace were studded with bare light bulbs that went on by night even when the Sheik was away, which was more often than...
...with its power, insight, and. to use a phrase of her own, pride of word. The only reservation tenable was that since the author, a middle-aged New Zealand schoolteacher, had written of a middle-aged woman who taught school, it was possible that the force of her novel sprang from circumstance, not art. Incense to Idols removes this possibility...
Year's Guarantee. Ford sprang some other surprises. It became the first major U.S. automaker to give a written, twelvemonth or 12,000-mile warranty on all its cars (v. the standard three-month or 4,000-mile warranty). Three days later, General Motors and American Motors said they would also put twelve-month or 12,000-mile warranties in writing. Ford also announced a lubrication system which requires greasing only every 30,000 miles -v. a recommended 1,500 miles for most other U.S. autos. The new system uses a puttylike lubricant which is forced into plastic cases...