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More Jobs. Like a jeweler who inspects a gem for the subtlest flaw, New York Democrats quickly spot the slightest deviation from accepted liberal doctrine. For the most part, the candidates give the purists little to worry about. All five call for more jobs in the public sector, passage of the Humphrey-Hawkins full-employment bill, national health insurance, a U.S. takeover of welfare, and federal assistance to New York City-all multibillion-dollar programs that would sharply increase budget deficits or taxes or both. In heavily Jewish New York City, moreover, the candidates cannot do enough for Israel...
...author's usual demand for personal justice is transmuted into a passion for social justice, and this merging of private and public feeling lends the novel a universality Sabatini nowhere else achieved. In the Marquis de la Tour d'Azyr, he has made one of the subtlest villains in romantic literature, a good man perverted by a bad idea (aristocratic privilege excuses any crime) into a perfectly sincere monster. In Scaramouche, the hero, he has created his Hamlet...
...writing for the Radio Times. A young woman (Jacqueline Pearce) with a manuscript in tow strips to the waist, brazenly daring Simon to ravish and, of course, publish her. Finally, his parched-for-love wife announces that she is pregnant, possibly by a man whom Simon despises. The subtlest alteration in Michael Gambon's marvelously controlled performance suggests that Parsifal will never sound the same again. No moat of detachment can guard the vulnerable castle of the heart...
...subtlest relationship is Mabel's compulsive "production" of her children. The oldest boy, about ten, pretty well understands how anxious she is and seems to try to reassure her with his love; his younger brother, the favorite, is only dimly aware of what's going on. The little sister, apparently the victim of these cedipal ties, grows chubbier and more confused every...
...Harvard administration, is not particularly interested in revealing its inner workings to the world--so what people in the West know about China these days comes mostly from an assortment of small clues, bits and snatches of the Party Line revealed in posters, newspapers, party conventions and the subtlest nuances of protocol...