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Poet William Rose Benét and Authoress Marcia Davenport said they had read the novel in galley proofs, and denounced the "political" campaign. In no time at all the Communist drive to suppress The Fifth Seal had turned into a fine publicity boom...
...lover, took a mistress named Constance Field, whose letters are perhaps the best thing in the novel. They began with the noisome clatter, wit, self-love and tinny ribaldry of an avid young female intellectual. They moved toward maturity and then into a hell soon matched by the hell Authoress Howe constructs for her hero...
Hundreds thought so too, readers back-patted him by mail. But one letter was of different ilk, from Advertising Executive John Marsh, Authoress Mitchell's husband and trouble shooter; it demanded an apology. Southern pride, suh, had been hurt...
...Authoress Vance saves Franchise from making a decision. It is Edouard who decides that it is in his interest to stop being sentimental and to turn the whole family over to the German authorities. And it is sullen, proletarian Maurice who pleads guilty, so that Blaise and Lover Simon may escape and the hostages go free...
...moan of doves in immemorial elms drowns out the faint echo of World War II, Authoress Thirkell seems to say hat while her Marling gentry may be vague and snobbish, they are good people o depend on in a crisis that never really comes. With a few comedy feathers stuck in an old hat, she leads the Marlings' stately stroll through the outskirts of war, leaves them peering absently toward the uknown tomorrow...