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...story of how Cedric, the tax man, stays for dinner chez Larkin. and stays and stays only to be subverted by food, drink, love and the Larkin clan's infectious lust for life, makes H. E. (for Herbert Ernest) Bates's novel one of the blithest robustious romps of the year. The book's gusto is all the more remarkable coming from welfare-sated England and from 53-year-old Author (The Sleepless Moon) Bates, a writer who in recent years has focused on the somber, the lovelorn and the violent...
...says Mann, in one of his ecstatic outbursts, "is the most beautiful, austerest, blithest, most sacred symbol of all supra-reasonable human striving for ... truth and fullness" but it is also "only one humanistic discipline among others; all of them, philosophy, jurisprudence, medicine, theology, even the natural sciences and technology . . . are only variations ... of one and the same high and interesting theme...
...Under the Apple Tree (Art Jarrett; Victor; Andrews Sisters; Decca). The blithest of the war-inspired songs, now up among the bestsellers...
...Vagabond was sitting at the end of a grey stone pier dangling his legs out over the water's edge like a little boy. In mind he was as happy as the blithest child of ten, for free at last of Divisional he had come down to the seashore to watch the last splashes of paint go on his boat before she went over into the water for another season. Clad in a blue Brittany shirt, bleached and streaked with white from long hours in the sun, knee length shorts that showed pock-marks of paint of as many colors...
...there is any need of exposing conditions in the past of Harvard football, "Time Out" supplies material for the blithest of muckrakers. In what year Mr. Forman played football "in a large university" we cannot determine; he is not listed, under that name, in the Harvard records. If there has been at Harvard "barbarism and brutality, the savage tyranny of coaches, frenzied methods of whipping up fighting spirit," Mr. Forman has exposed all this. But we seriously doubt the truth of his assertions. Neither do we believe for one moment that, as the publishers say, "Time Out" will...