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...nothing straightforward about Iris Murdoch's intentions, however. The mannered maneuverings that bring so little about hold a marvelous suspense as the author reveals a racy richness of motive and confusion. It becomes clear that at the heart of An Unofficial Rose lies a far subtler and thornier question than whether each Jack gets his Jill. In love or out of it, does anyone know the real causes of human action...
...explain why the Senate refused to confirm Lewis Strauss as Secretary of Commerce. It was the onrush of the great human story in the Strauss affair that TIME reported in its June 15 cover story on Strauss, a story that prepared readers for the thorny issues and the thornier human personalities involved. With weekly journalism's advantages of second thought and third look, TIME this week reports the high drama of the post-midnight confirmation vote-not only the result, but how and why it came about, what the press said, and what the likely consequences are. See NATIONAL...
...demand weeding. Thinking themselves safe in disposing of the Dictionary of Islam on adding the ten-volume Encyclopaedia of Islam, they were appalled when, within an hour, a long-haired scholar came to the desk inquiring after the dictionary. The problem of arranging the variegated collection has proven even thornier. In trying to place the reference works on history, language, and geography in a logical order, the staff could not place the countries in alphabetical order, because many of the books deal with several countries. Instead they arranged them according to location. Cartographers often complain about the difficulties of representing...
...Bouts, Roger van der Weyden and the brothers Van Eyk-held a reducing glass up to nature, painted serenely sweet and ordered little worlds. No master before or since has surpassed them in that, but more passionate artists are apt to find them too phlegmatic, and to prefer the thornier works of Hieronymus Bosch, who also lived within Burgundy's bounds...
...agree to give the four men up. The nature of the new evidence was not divulged, but so feeble was previous evidence that it was thought Sir Robert had handed over the possibly guilty men to certain death simply to be in a better bargaining position for a much thornier problem: North China currency...