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...hymn being sung in the background as Rene is led away in the police van. Lili is looking on, with tears in her eyes and an angelic smile on her face. This latter is more visually absurd than the former, but both are intellectually unsatisfactory in the way they warp the entire story to fit it to an artificial ending...
...nger's politics had long been common knowledge; since 1920 he had been a Socialist. But as editorial boss of the cooperative, Associated Press-like D.P.-A. since its founding in 1949, Sänger had not allowed his Socialist ideas to warp his handling of the news. Still, the very fact that he was a Socialist had constantly bothered the Christian Democratic publishers of the big papers that control the wire service. With key 1961 federal elections drawing on, they finally drummed up enough support on the agency's twelve-man board of directors to sack...
...Serge would continue as he sat with the kids in their warp-walled house in New Orleans) Dennis saw a girl sitting in the parlor of a neighbor, so beautiful that he loved her right off. Even when Florabelle looked him full in the face and he saw that she only had one good eye, he didn't mind. He lifted her in his arms and put her in his buggy and drove her out for a ride. Parked out beside Lake Pontchartrain, he asked her to marry him. She winced; then, without saying anything, she threw aside...
Back in the Texas of the 1890s, when the pen was not always mightier than the six-shooter, Editor William Cowper Brann grew so bitter about sham and injustice that he longed for "a language whose words are coals of juniper-wood, whose sentences are woven with a warp of aspics' fangs and woof of fire." The language came so naturally that in three years of publishing in Waco, then a town of 25,000, he built a phenomenal worldwide circulation of 120,000 for his one-man monthly Iconoclast. It also tore Waco into feuding factions, got Brann...
...LOVE POSSESSED, by James Gould Cozzens. The best U.S. novel of the year, wrought of many kinds of love and their power to strengthen or warp character, make or break the lives of man or woman. Through its lawyer hero, the book also deals with something most U.S. novelists have forgot about-man's responsibility...