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...Senate Appropriations Subcommittee last week. "The problem is worldwide Soviet interventionism that poses an unprecedented challenge to the free world. Anyone attempting to debate the prospects for a successful outcome in El Salvador who fails to consider the Soviet menace is dealing with only the leg or the trunk of the elephant...
...them quite so vividly as Corde does. Only once does Bellow, who seems to stand fairly close behind Corde, trying to speak over his protagonist's shoulder, break through. Describing a case in which a man kidnaps a woman, rapes her repeatedly and locks her in the trunk of his car, finally shooting her and dumping the body in a trash heap. Bellow drives home the point of a world out of control. But he undercuts the effect when Corde gives his own impressions of the event to the defending lawyer in a language that sounds a cross from Annie...
...every day," and that Williams had tried to pay him to perform an act of oral sex. Another black youngster, 15, testified that he once accepted a ride from Williams, who began fondling him, and then parked in a secluded woods. Said the boy: "When he went to the trunk, I jumped out and ran." One witness claimed that while visiting Williams' house, he saw children's clothing on the bathroom floor...
Beside her, on legs that were just learning their business, was a spotted fawn, as small and perfect as a trinket seen through a reducing glass. They stood there, mother and child, under a gray bench whose trunk was engraved with dozens of hearts and initials. Stretched on the ground was another fawn, and I realized that the doe had just finished twinning. The second fawn was still wet, still unrisen. Here was a scene of rare sylvan splendor, in one of my five favorite boroughs, and I couldn't have asked for more...
...opening paragraph of his preface, Wolpe assures us that his book is not of that genre, revealing his true motive in a voice filled with profound eloquence: "These offshoots of behavior therapy are like the uppermost branches of a tree, visible above a mist." He expounds further: "The trunk and lower branches remain hidden from view: no clear, easily accessible, and authoritative description has been available to the public. This book is an attempt to provide that full picture, to reveal the tree and all its branches...