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At every level, though, his demands on his teammates are exacting. Though he has eased up a bit, for years McDonnell had a habit of telephoning department heads at 2 or 3 a.m. for hour-long talks. His knack for asking the one question that an aide cannot answer is...
The book takes Nabokov only to the May morning in 1940, when he and his wife Vera and their only child Dmitri, then 6, embarked for New York from the French port of Saint-Nazaire. Behind him lay two distinct and finished lifetimes. The nearer one was his 20 years...
Even when British police refuse to act, an aggrieved citizen has a legal remedy. He can ask a local magistrate to issue a summons against the defendant, hire a barrister and conduct his own "private" prosecution. If he loses, he must pay the defendant's costs. For the first...
More Than Opium. Appropriately, the introduction to that edition was written by Garaudy, the Communist who has probably done more than anyone else to make the dialogue possible. Raised as a Protestant, Garaudy has been a party member for 33 years; in addition to his duties as a member of...
Right You Are is 48 years old, and there is scarcely a grey line in the script. It is a kind of intellectual and philosophical whodunit, aimed at discovering the truth of a situation. A government clerk (Sydney Walker), his wife and his mother-in-law (Helen Hayes) have recently...