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...team of U.S. explainers waited patiently in Munsan last week, armed with tape recordings, photographs and dossiers of 22 young Americans who refuse to come home. Day after day the U.N. explainers sent word that they would meet six Americans, the lone Briton and 30 South Koreans. But the prisoners refused to come out of their Communist compounds...
Mary's little leg of lamb is an unusual weapon, but no more unusual than Roald Dahl's plots. Someone Like You is a collection of 18 of the 37-year-old Briton's quietly savage tales. They are.often macabre and always bizarre, involving chicanery, murder, dismemberment or some more commonplace drawing-room horror...
...adopted English that was both expert and moving. The other was Helen Fowler's The Intruder, an Australian novel about a mind-sick veteran and the family of his dead buddy. Another notable first was Mr. Nicholas, a whiplash dissection of a tyrannical London father by young (27) Briton Thomas Hinde. Two others, slickly competent, successful and considerably overrated by reviewers, were John Phillins' The Second Happiest Day and Charles Flood's Love Is a Bridge, each in its way an inconclusive excursion into the emotional difficulties of the comfortably fixed...
...free nations can now welcome the Japanese to their company. Of the trickle of foreign books critical of the U.S., the most sensible and understanding was Italian Luigi Barzini Jr.'s Americans Are Alone in the World. The most gratuitous book from abroad was, by all odds, Briton Earl Jowitt's The Strange Case of Alger Hiss, which niggled at American jurisprudence and raised among readers questions as to the earl's competence to judge the nature of Communist conspiracy...
...major critic made a major evaluation in any area, but Briton V. S. Pritchett's shrewd and readable literary essays in Books in General could serve as a lesson in the appreciation of books for today's academicians...