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...eyes and Negro mind, he makes a noble try. All the Kingdoms is presented by its author and its publishers as a novel, but it is more a loose-linked succession of anec dotes and characters. Written with re strained passion and sincere compassion, the book is a sociological blend of feeling and outrage reminiscent of Alan Paton's more powerful hymn to the blacks of South Africa, Cry, the Beloved Country...
...Marble Orchard is a deliberately zany book, and Novelist Boylen's bizarre theme is as difficult to sustain as Lovey's pretense of blindness; at times, the writing is as stiffly convoluted as a plastic funeral wreath. It is, nevertheless, a sprightly blend of social satire and comedy -and an engaging record of a Tomboy Sawyer's struggle to find her bearings in the nincompoop latitudes...
...Pomona only enough to carry on the program one year, Economist Bond feels that he will have no trouble making the course permanent. At course's end, 22 of the 25 said they would like to come back next year. Said one executive: "The lectures all seem to blend...
...result was a low-key blend of strings and muted brasses which sounded as smooth as cream and went down with the public just as easily. The album is still Columbia's popular bestseller outside the jazz field. (It is behind Dave Brubeck but ahead of the albums of such old standbys as Frank Sinatra, Paul Weston and Les Elgart.) Legrand followed it up with a series of mood collections on European capitals (Holiday in Rome, Castles in Spain, Vienna Holiday) which, with his first album, have sold upwards of 400,000 albums...
Life Is Death. Wilson's invisible man, the Outsider, may be described as a blend of existentialist hero, religious man without God, and prophet or saint-in-embryo. His dilemma might be described as that of a man living under the conviction of sin who cannot accept traditional Christianity. In the lines of Eliot's Ash Wednesday...