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...experience is that detective stories are being read more than ever." Ellery Queen held a contradictory mirror up to Father Knox's words, reassured himself: "Readers get more wary, but writers get more clever." People would always read mysteries, declared Leslie Ford and David Frome in unison. "Monsignor Knox is talking through his hat," cried Rex Stout, "-if he wears...
Democrats and Republicans leaped to protest in unison. An anonymous Administration spokesman called the idea "utterly fantastic" (it would lose the Democrats the last remnants of federal patronage). Buzzed Oregon's G.O.P. Senator Wayne Morse: "Blind partisanship" (it would give a Democrat the power to appoint a Republican President...
...great and holy, [although] sometimes he seems to be conceited and intolerant, like a Volga preacher." Sometimes it was "painfully unpleasant" to hear his comments on women: "a string of indecent words . . . unspeakably vulgar. . . . He is really a whole orchestra, but not all the horns are playing in unison. ... It is terribly stupid to call a man a genius. It is quite impossible to understand what genius is. It is far simpler and clearer to say-Leo Tolstoy...
...imprisonment. (One, 19-year-old Benjamin Kaplan, was sentenced to life imprisonment for "discharging a firearm at His Majesty's forces.") In a turbulent three-day trial they shouted anti-British slogans from the dock, quoted Scripture (Let God arise, let His enemies be scattered . . .), chanted in unison "In blood and fire Judah fell; in blood and fire it will rise again," before they were shackled and led off to prison...
They Dream of Soap. Day & night, the public was raped with the good, simple Evans slogan: "Love that soap!" "It's my favorite bar!" Evans told Vic: "You got to eat, drink, sleep, and yes, by God, dream soap. Check?" "Check!" screamed back his underlings in desperate unison. Any one who failed to scream back "Check!" went out on his ear, Partner Kim told Vic. But Author Wakeman's main story is of how Vic gave Old Man Evans as good as he got. It is also the story of how Vic, despite years of cynicism and success...