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...from Marston's probe in Philadelphia, Justice investigators in Washington became aware late last year that Eilberg and his fellow Pennsylvania Democrat Daniel J. Flood were both candidates for investigation. Following a federal bribery conviction, a former Flood aide named Stephen Elko arrived at the department offering to tell tales???in exchange for immunity from further prosecution?that implicated Flood and Eilberg. Yet by all accounts, this information did not travel up the department hierarchy in time to warn Bell and Carter away from the urgings of Eilberg, whose telephone conversation with the President could be construed as an effort...
SEVEN GOTHIC TALES??? Isak Dinesen? Smith & Haas...
...matters?Sex and Fairy Tales??? Dr. Adams sharply disagrees with "advanced" psychologists. A child, she says, is inquisitive, gullible but not equipped to understand scientific facts. It does not matter whether the parent attributes babies to God, a mother or a cabbage patch. Let the parent be casual, unselfconscious and not worry if the child refuses to believe what he is told or quickly forgets or misunderstands. Likewise Dr. Adams says fairy tales do no harm because the child's world is an arbitrary one, "a definite period of living which has its own characteristic prejudices and predilections...
Five Oriental Tales???Comte de Gobineau?Viking Press ($2.50). Conflicts of immense critical import have been waged as to whether or not Philosopher Joseph Arthur Comte de Gobineau, (1816-62), was or was not a touring precursor of Nietzsche, which great Nordic, together with Composer Wagner, "discovered" Gobineau and made for him in Germany a reputation which he did not live to enjoy in his native France. These conflicts having somewhat subsided, in favor of Gobineau, there is space for attention to his neglected fiction. A fierce individualism dominates. Characters are wild, exotic types, not invented but recreated...
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