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...meets an aging French courtesan, an outcast in the Cretan community, and makes her feel young again and watches her die. Meanwhile the Englishman meets a young widow, as beautiful and bitter as the ancient Greek heroines. He makes love to her. A young boy who loved her in vain drowns himself. And then the Englishman watches the community stone the young woman he has loved, and kill...
Around them flocked William McKeon, the vain, insecure State Chairman who owed his office to Wagner but felt the Mayor treated him like a "file clerk;" Stanley Steingut, a Wagner enemy who was cager to be the Assembly's Speaker; several upstate leaders seeking a more influential role; and two pragmatic reformers from New York City's West Side, impatient for advancement and irritated by Wagner's indifference. As the coalition's efforts seemed to approach success, others desirous of a share of the legislature's $4.3 million patronage joined...
Hydra-Foiled. In his pursuit of "Goulash Communism," Khrushchev tried to cope with it, and with all his economy's mounting problems, by replanning the planners. No fewer than six times in ten years, he scrambled the organization table, veering from decentralization back to recentralization in the vain hope of finding the magic mix for what he called "better utilization of the country's industrial potential." It eluded him each time-and his constant shufflings left the Russian economy at the mercy of the monster planning Hydra, with its multiple overlapping bureaus on the national, regional and local...
...critique, then carried the discussion onto the editorial page. "Mr. Frankel is astounded," said the News, "that the Alabama lawyers' periodical over ten years presents only one side of, let us say, the issue of desegregation vis-a-vis the Supreme Court. He has searched, he says, in vain for publication evidence that Alabama attorneys do other than roundly condemn the high court. Is there only one lawyers' viewpoint here in Alabama as regards the court and this general issue...
Under the barrage of abuse, Lilienthal was often tempted to quit. But he had second thoughts, as he noted candidly. "Though I don't think I am pathologically vain, there is a thrill in being a celebrity and in the kudos that go with that state. Playing the great man-it is a sweet draught and no mistake...