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...prison and becomes enraptured by her exploits; his scholarly dispassion buckles as she relates her history of adultery, theft and even-perhaps-murder. He becomes her vicarious paramour, and her champion, determined to prove her innocent of the murder of a lover (Charles Denner). She is, through his strenuous dedication, finally acquitted. But he soon finds himself implicated in the death of Camille's husband. Camille could save him, but only by incriminating herself. She declines, of course. By this time the sociologist, in jail, is almost beyond caring. He is beguiled now by her guilt...
Harvard undoubtedly could accept more Indian students each year, particularly if the admissions office undertook strenuous recruiting. Steiner's legal evaluation of the 1693 pact may meet legal standards, but it will do nothing to bring Indian students to Harvard...
Pride. Life offstage was no less strenuous. Melchior consumed mammoth meals, washed down by heroic quantities of aquavit and Danish beer. He traveled widely and was an enthusiastic big-game hunter. (He liked to wear the skin of a deer he had bagged as his costume in Siegfried.) He took great joy in entertaining friends with his wife "Kleinchen" during festive holidays like Christmas, when he unabashedly decked himself out as a jolly Santa Claus...
...much plot for five dollars, and Segal doesn't make up for that weakness in any other department. He's dispensed with things like descriptive prose, character development or even the maudlin emotion-grabbing of Love Story. Apparently amusement is the goal of this little book, and any strenuous exercise of intellect or emotions beyond that of, say, The Secret Storm or The Edge of Night is too tiring to be amusing...
...ahead. Meanwhile, bankers and investors worry about a credit squeeze: Federal Reserve Chairman Arthur Burns disclosed last week that the growth of U.S. money supply had ground to a complete stop in January. Interest rates on bank loans to businesses are being kept from rising still higher only by strenuous Government jawboning. Internationally, the dollar took a severe battering last week, in yet another world monetary crisis. It is likely that other major currencies will rise in value over the next several months, leading to a de facto devaluation of the dollar. Reacting to all this turbulence, the stock market...