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...another that they fight so fiercely. No one excels Kazantzakis in portraying this love-hate ambivalence. In one memorable vignette, Kazantzakis tells how a group of Royalists and Reds shoot it out one winter's day in a ravine, and then, exhausted and wounded, huddle together for warmth as their lives...
...dealers predict there will be more sweaters than parkas on New England slopes this winter to. Reason for this popularity is added color. But experts point out that sweaters don't provide the same warmth as parkas, which will have to be used when the weather gets really cold...
Parkas for women will be longer this year, the local shops report. New synthetics will provide even more warmth than usual, and many manufacturers are presenting fur-linings for hoods...
...Virgin & the Dynamo. Adams found a replacement for his wife, and a possible mistress, in Elizabeth Cameron, the vivacious wife of the senior Senator from Pennsylvania. "Life is not worth living," Adams once admitted, "unless you are attached to someone." The warmth of their relationship encouraged him to believe that the figure of the Mother is the core of Christianity. In Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres, he credited the 12th century adoration of the Virgin with inspiring the building of the great cathedrals and with giving man happiness he has not had since...
COLD FRIDAY, by Whittaker Chambers. Looking back on his earnest years at Columbia and the ideologies that shaped his life, Chambers shows warmth and detachment missing from Witness. In particular, the intellectual zeal of the '30s, which demanded that an idea become conviction and that conviction turn into action, comes alive through Chambers' reconsideration of his motives and acts...