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Inundated by gift copies, De Gaulle leafs through every volume sent him, reads with care those that seem promising. Afterward he writes personal notes in longhand to the author, length and warmth depending on his opinion of the work (one of his highest compliments: "I congratulate myself for having read your book"). In recent months De Gaulle has polished off, among others, Francois d'Harcourt's L'Asie, Reveil d'un Monde, dealing with the diversity of Asian cultures; Edouard Sablier's De I'Oural a I'Atlantique, a dissertation on Communist penetration...
Thanks to his charismatic warmth and pliancy, the Roman Catholic Church seemed to change from wariness of new trends in the secular world to acceptance of them. It is not odd, considering the scope and influence of a Pope, that one man seemed to be responsible for it all. What is extraordinary is that the change was visible in the space of one year: 1962. Before that, John had been a puzzling Pope-openly warm and friendly to people, but curiously disappointing and conservative in many of his acts. His apostolic constitution, Veterum Sapientfi, was a brusque warning to those...
...last month and then ordered killed by the Times News Service before publication, Baldwin said: "Weariness, mistrust, recrimination and mutual suspicion, particularly between many of the top civilian and military officials, prevail" in the Pentagon. Uniformed personnel feel, he said, that "top civilians in the Pentagon show too little warmth or sense of leadership, of loyalty down to their subordinates, or of the importance of the human being to the military services in the nuclear...
...recent years as their fascination with Princess Margaret has faded. Since her marriage, the senior princess has drawn heavy criticism for shirking her royal duties while drawing a $42,000 yearly stipend from the government. Alexandra, unsubsidized and unstuffy, has filled the vacuum with easy dignity and endearing warmth. On her first, grueling tour of ten Southeast Asian nations, she delighted her native hosts at a state banquet in Hong Kong by proposing the toast in their language-and then confessing in a loud aside: "I'm practicing Chinese in the bath...
...delightfully adulterous story about gods as gods, gods as mortals, gods as lovers, and woman as Goodness. The Lowell House Drama Group's production of Giraudoux's retelling of the Amphitryon myth (supposedly the 38th version of the tale), while often sloppy and heavy, maintains much of the warmth and high spirit of the script, and is very funny...