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HARD TRAVELLIN' by Kenneth Allsop. 448 pages. The New American Library...
Most of his press colleagues still disagree with Levin. Evening News Columnist Kenneth Allsop suggested that "this fire-eating warrior" of the press "ought to volunteer for a suicide squad and parachute into Viet Nam." But one barometer of popular opinion, the Daily Mirror, which heretofore had had almost nothing kind to say about the U.S. in Viet Nam, last week paid tribute in a front-page editorial to the courage of U.S. troops...
...accommodations after having budgeted $15. Foreigners complain that there are no middle-priced hotels in many U.S. cities: only the expensive and the grubby. By contrast, the motel-"the word that blisters the night sky of the American suburbs in vermilion, green and harlequin Catherine wheels," as Kenneth Allsop wrote in Punch-is widely appreciated as a sybaritic haven of sterilized glasses, heaped towels, ice-cube machines and coffeemakers...
...Lunch will now be available at the friendly neighborhood bookstore, right there beside Youngblood Haivke and The New English Bible. The terrible Mary McCarthy has spoken of Burroughs with respect, and the Saturday Review's John Ciardi has praised his "profoundly meaningful" search for "values." British Writer Kenneth Allsop called him "Rimbaud in a raincoat." The grey eminence himself has even appeared at that squarest of social gatherings, a writers' conference...
...trouble with Brubeck, according to the Daily Mail's Kenneth Allsop, is that his music has no connection with "the real raw emotions of jazz." Since the insistently cool Modern Jazz Quartet, a favorite of critics on both sides of the Atlantic, is frequently praised for its lack of raw emotion, chances are that Brubeck's real sin is his popular success. One of the more adroit English critics, Benny Green of the London Observer, even managed to praise and condemn the same tour. In the program notes, which he wrote, Green found Brubeck's appeal...