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...Lincoln Mohawks scored five quick goals in the second period at Watson last night and went on to rout the junior varsity hockey team, 8 to 3. Two of the Lincoln tallies were by Wimpy Burnett, a member of the 1956 U.S. Olympic team...
THAT'S no ulcer . . . That's rot-0the rot that works in the belly of all you big shots." Thus, the hero of the latest novel about U.S. business, Company Man by John G. Burnett (Harper; $3.50), castigates his spineless section chief for caving in to the pressure of office politics. On the surface, Author Burnett's tale, revolving about a big U.S. airline, is merely one more in the long list of novels, from Frank Norris' The Octopus to Sinclair Lewis' Babbitt and John Dos Passos' The Big Money, that show businessmen...
...this fact, the novel The Long View might be a work of art. Its theme-the defeat of the ingrown English middle class-has been needleworked by such skilled knitters and tatters as Ivy (Men and Wives) Compton-Burnett and Elizabeth (The House in Paris) Bowen. The Long View knits up the raveled sleeve of middle-class tweed. As in the work of her greater exemplars, Author Howard shows the old, secure, middle-class family house to be falling, and her characters speak in those elliptical, strained asides of snooty English people who would rather drop a friend than...
...characters are exploited by the director, Compton Burnett, to dramatize their own predicament. The officer, Commandant Hohensee (Marius Goring) is made to say things like, "What we share--our music, our talks--has nothing to do with the war." This may be so, but he would not say it, and the girl would not reply, "But you are a German." Even though Maria Schell, as the daughter, is a lovely woman, it is hard to listen to the words she has been given. The "minor key" in which the movie is set seems more like a series of uneasy moments...
...THOMAS BURNETT SWANN Winter Haven...