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...well, the Syrians and Palestinians-assuming a formula for their representation can be worked out-will show up later on. Washington, after top White House and State Department policymakers spent their Thanksgiving holiday digesting extensive reports by Ambassadors Hermann Eilts in Cairo and Samuel Lewis in Jerusalem, began to tinker with a new formula for a pre-Geneva "preparatory conference"-comprising Israel, Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, the U.S. and the Soviets, if Moscow wished-that would keep a comprehensive multilateral Geneva conference going until Syria and the Palestinians decided to join. Meanwhile, the Eilts-Lewis cables were relayed to U.S. Ambassador...
...Honourable Schoolboy, arguably le Carre's best novel since The Spy Who Came In From the Cold landed him on the publisher's all-star team, carries that strain of realism to its logical and dramatic conclusion. Taking up where he left off in Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, le Carre chronicles the efforts of a demoralized Secret Service to regain its reputation and, more important, its sense of self-respect, in the wake of its infiltration by a Soviet double agent. The task falls on the shoulders of George Smiley, typically a shrewd but atypically a paunchy and unglamorous secret...
...desire to tinker with the most basic element of nature from the start provoked the public into a slowly waning crusade against scientists eager to commence DNA research work and receive recognition before other laboratories around the world did so first. Two summers ago the Cambridge City Council undertook the task of reviewing the controversial research planned by local universities and eventually emerged with a conditional approval of the research. The problem confronting the Council in its review--which attracted national media coverage--lay in the composition of the deciding body, a nine-member citizen's review panel, none...
Similar intense descriptions of nature stamped Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Dillard's 1975 Pulitzer-prizewinning book...
...wave had a tidal force. Le Carré's first books proclaimed a new talent. The Spy Who Came In from the Cold became part of the language. Its antihero, Alec Leamas, was the personification of that burnt-out case, that necessary evil, the cold war spy. Tinker, Tailor earned more money than any other espionage novel, and The Honourable Schoolboy is about to smash its record. The novel, now in third printing before publication, is the October main selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club; paperback rights have been purchased by Bantam Books for $1 million. The only arena...