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...audience; the reason, a Vatican spokesman told Perón, was "because of interpretations that could be given such a meeting." President Leone, who had enough free time to preside over a reception for film stars (including Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor), sent Premier Giulio Andreotti in his stead. To emphasize the private nature of the meeting, Andreotti met Perón not in his office in Palazzo Chigi, but in a small room in the Parliament building...
...CHRISTINA STEAD 787 pages. Holt, Rinehart& Winston...
This is a long, unfathomably static but often exhilarating novel about money. There are 104 chapters, at least as many characters, and dialogue that runs on and on like ticker tape. Money is not a particularly easy subject for fiction. Miss Stead is no Balzac or Dickens; on the other hand, she is no Louis Auchincloss either. She is, however, obviously mesmerized by money and her sharpest writing is comment about it. "Certainly I understand the class war," says a rich old countess. "We steal from the pigs: the pigs know they want truffles and we want truffles when...
...Australian who lives in London, Christina Stead is known in the U.S. chiefly for another doorstop novel called The Man Who Loved Children. Both books were originally published shortly before World War II and forgotten for 30 years. They are more alike than may at first appear. The Man Who Loved Children is an obsessive, virulent chronicle of domestic agony-the kind of endless, patiently malevolent novel Eugene O'Neill might have written...
...characterized most building projects in and around Harvard Square. For the past five years, the Square area has been drifting steadily away from the concept of community Local shopowners and businessmen have abandoned the Square in the face of skyrocketing rents and stepped-up insurance rates. In their stead have come more restauranteurs, ice cream vendors and bankers--all of whom cater to a transient population like that which swarms any tourist stopover of the Library's stature. Moreover, ownership of non-Harvard property around the Square has transferred from the hands of several local residents and estates to those...