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Bickering Prelude. It was a characteristically headlong performance by the 44-year-old politico, who took office seven months ago with the biggest popular majority in Brazilian history. It came after a week of feuding and fussing, touched off-not surprisingly-by the warmth of Quadros' welcome for Cuba's homeward-bound economic czar, Che Guevara. The Cuban did not arrive on schedule. Row on row of officials were left waiting at the Brasilia airport. When Che finally arrived without warning the next day, only a few mechanics were on hand. Quadros later put on his best blue...
Among his relentless, cold-blooded fellow plotters. Walter Ulbricht stood out as the iciest of them all, for he had no trace of sentiment or warmth. He was generally despised even by his colleagues; "Tovarish Woodenhead," they sneered behind his back because of his mimicry of Moscow. The great female stalwart of German Communism, Klara Zetkin, once remarked: "May a benevolent fate prevent this man from ever rising to the top of the Communist Party. I cannot stand him. Look into his eyes and you will see how sly and false...
...greatly, because it is not so far from the truth. I watched my mother hook up her electric blanket to the overhead light in one of the permanent tents at Yosemite National Park last summer with great howls of derision, and found at 3 a.m. that the extra warmth was quite welcome...
...colloquially humorous Touchstone; and Alek Primrose makes a memorable character of the octogenarian servant Adam. Donald Davis has effective moments as Jaques, but his famous "seven ages" speech is not yet acidulous enough and he often substitutes h's for r's in words like "part." Will Geer brings warmth...
...that time, one of those mysterious underground (or as Miller would put it, "Chthonian") movements has been rumbling about the name and personality of Henry Miller, and a committee-sized panel of names has been assembled by the publishers to "welcome Miller among the elect." The encomiums range in warmth and weight from T. S. Eliot to Kenneth Patchen. He is not only the Buddha of the beatniks, but Lawrence Durrell asserts that ''American literature today begins and ends with the meaning of what he has done." He has been called, or called himself a "saint." "Caliban...