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Spreading Asphalt. I.P.C. is not the original villain in the piece. The U.S. company simply controls a piece of land under terms that have infuriated Peruvians for generations. In the early 1800s, the La Brea area was known only for its tar pits, which were leased by the government to private contractors for limited periods. In 1826 the tar pits, with 100 surrounding acres, were sold to private investors-and there the trouble began...
...villain pursues her. He listens at her front door with a stethoscope. He even sneaks into her flat with a watering can and sprinkles her jonquils. Jerk: "I hate to tell you, but those flowers are artificial." Jack: "That's all right. There's no water...
Within an hour the vicious villain has slandered the hero's good name, persuaded the gullible Allworthy to disown him, extracted from Squire Western a promise that Sophie will become his bride instead of Tom's. Appalled, Sophie flees to London, whither Tom is also bound. Western and Blifil set out in hot pursuit, and the next hour is crammed with all manner of violent and absurd adventures: desperate duels, rascally robberies, satanic stranglings, egregious escapes, and any number of precipitate plunges into a fate nobody seems to consider worse than death. At the climax poor dear Sophie...
...include Dr. Talbot, rector of "Gloucester" College, Oxford, who lends his prestige to the concoction of war propaganda, and Lord Pontypool, a vulgarian press lord, whose horrible career is clearly based on that of megalomaniac Lord Northcliffe, creator of Britain's all-too-popular press. But the chief villain is one who usually appears as a fictional hero-the sensitive leftwing intellectual. Tony Caldecott had been the editor of a Quaker-financed liberal weekly and survives the war with a combat-won Military Cross and consciousness of a desperate cowardice known only to himself and his dead comrades. Between...
Caldecott is a truly dreadful character, designed to win Fitz Gibbon no friends in British left-wing intellectual circles, who have detested him ever since When the Kissing Had to Stop (TIME, July 18, 1960) made the left the villain of contemporary British history. Fitz Gibbon does not seem to mind, has announced his next book as Random Thoughts of a Fascist Hyena...