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...hope of uniting his party and consolidating his power. His failure to accomplish either aim reflected the fact that Northern Ireland's politics are still ruled by prejudice and personalities. The patrician Prime Minister is a cautious and moderate man who talks about issues; his opponents stir their followers with appeals to passion. Extremist Paisley, for instance, calls O'Neill a "traitor and a tyrant," and his followers delight in scrawling "F-k the Pope" on boardings. Only the extremist factions received any real psychological lift from the elections, an ill omen for the troubled country...
...Nixon seemed to smile at the Mission's purposes. On the debit side is the influence of Great Britain, who, along with the Russians, are arming the Nigerians. No matter what the State Department does with the report, or doesn't do, if this report of starvation doesn't stir well-fed America, perhaps, as E. E. Cummings once suggested, we'd better "Burry the Statue of Liberty because it begins to stink like hell...
...Bruno is dying. Danby begins by sharing his bed with Adelaide the maid, then flirts with his brother-in-law's wife and finally consorts with an ex-nun named Lisa. She and a forbearing homosexual nurse called Nigel are the enigmatic characters, familiar in Murdoch fiction, who stir the emotional chemistry of the others into molecular groupings and regroupings...
...overblown (not to say overwritten) femininity, he pursues Solange Dandillot, a pretty and reassuringly placid young thing from the Parisian upper middle class. At first she is just right for him, pliant and emotionally phlegmatic. But soon a monster, which Costals calls the Hippogriff, begins to stir in her. In short, she becomes a woman who wants to get married. To that end, she willingly suffers every humiliation that Costals can devise for her, including the signing of a false letter admitting adultery in the marriage-to-be (giving Costals legal grounds for divorce) and agreeing to have an abortion...
...because the nation was emotionally drained by Palach's deed, the throngs of mourners watched and listened in eerie silence, and quickly left for home when the ceremony ended. But in their numbers and reverence, they demonstrated that the anguish that drove Palach to his death still can stir his countrymen...