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...characters, subplots, detailed social background and satisfying verdant county settings. Too long, too oldfashioned, too English, thought American publishers. But then in 1964 A Horseman Riding By, the first of Delderfield's Devonshire family sagas, sold an impressive 20,000 copies in the U.S. By 1970 the Delderfield blend of history, sentiment and foursquare storytelling could make God Is an Englishman a runaway U.S. bestseller (60,000 copies in hard cover, 500,000 in paper...
...anxiety have since produced an increasing conviction that measurable knowledge does not adequately account for, or much ease, the pain and confusion of modern life. The poet, like many another brilliant soul, has concluded that we are in God's hand or nowhere. Yet the blend of the clinical and the classical has never left his verse. It is particularly notable in this, the first book of poems issued since Auden returned to Oxford and England for good last May after 33 years...
...predominantly black slum area on the fringes of Harvard, huddles directly across the Square from the fashionable Brattle Street area where Cambridge's middle class white liberals pay an average of nearly $50,000 for their homes. To complete the potpourri, the neighborhoods of North Cambridge contain a blend of blacks elderly people, working class families, students grouped in apartments, and Cambridge's wealthy who inhabit the shady lanes west of Kirkland...
Vegetarians can turn to Science and learn of a breakthrough in genetics that may one day allow man to blend mangoes and melons and other combinations of fruits or vegetables. For animal fanciers, Environment tells of a zookeeper trying to collect as many of Eden's original inhabitants as possible. That is good news to anyone who has never seen an addax, or even an Arabian oryx...
...Vietnamese character and its encounter with the West. In one form or other, scholars, journalists and Government officials have said most of what Frances FitzGerald has to say. But she may succeed better than they simply because she delves into culture, history and politics with so fresh a blend of compassion and intelligence...