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...between a totalitarian state and a "Titotalitarian" one is so narrow that even a writ of habeas corpus cannot pass through it, but the Tito version may be more tempting to the satirist. In this book Anglo-Irish Novelist Lawrence Durrell, who once served with the British embassy in Belgrade, leaves his steamy Mideastern cabals (Balthazar, Justine) for airy Balkan spoofs. The eleven grotesque tales in Esprit de Corps (subtitled Sketches from Diplomatic Life) do not all come off, but the best of them extract a flavorsome slivovitz from the Titoesque...
Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov. About a middle-aged monomaniac's obsession with an adolescent "nymphet." Brilliantly writ ten, by turns hilarious and horrifying, it is a strange but major work of fiction...
...Wheels. The "abiding" love and Scriptural wisdom of Pastor Moser (of the splinter Missionary Baptistic Church) and his co-signers are reflected by many a Southern minister.*Their use of Holy Writ to defend their position does not sit well with many ministers-even in the Deep South. But the fact remains that right now the segregationist clergymen are the ones who are doing the loudest talking. In Little Rock, segregationist clergymen are doing their best to embarrass their opponents by taking newspaper ads to ask why the opponents' own churches are not integrated, if integration is what they...
...suffered many a trauma. But few came as quite such a shock as the Great Trauma of 1922. That year the Viscountess Rhondda, a doughty Welsh suffragette who went to jail once for dropping a crude incendiary bomb inside a post box, had the gall to request a writ of summons that would give her a seat alongside Their Lordships. A few of the noble lords found her petition "irresistible," but not so the grumpy Lord Chancellor, the Earl of Birkenhead. The Lord Chancellor's blunt antifeminism carried...
...friends often seem to have stepped from the pages of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky, with their doom writ large on their foreheads. There is Alexander, the perennial student, pompously lecturing the girls on the Hellenic past, and Madame Edlinsky. who likes Jews yet loves an anti-Semite. And there is the wide-horizoned land itself: "We knew without thinking that it was a great, rich country, and a great people. Evil was organized and directed, but the good sprang from the heart and mind of man, and ran like a river between its natural banks. The word 'duty...