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...HARDY BURT New York City...
...days of Percy Bysshe Shelley, the literature of adolescence has been full of sensitive schoolboys hounded by packs of their coarser fellows. Novelists like to even the old scores retroactively by painting the tormentors as unmitigated monsters. In Scotland's Burning, a first novel with autobiographical overtones, Nathaniel Burt offers a refreshingly different version. He writes an indictment without bitterness, a confession with candor. Scotland's Burning is the first-person story of a year in the prep-school life of Anthony Comstock,* 14, told by the hero 25 years later...
...though he wavers, Tony does not "betray" Sam. By the end of the school year, however, Tony's sense of guilt and shame makes him realize that his loyalties were misplaced. Novelist Burt handles his characters with skill and his language with precision, and he has managed to turn out a morality in which he spares his readers any moralizing...
...conscious kin, in Novelist Burl's mind, to the celebrated anti-vice crusader of the same name. Burt picked his hero's given name first, and Comstock "just popped up" from the Burt subconscious to go with...
Best actor: Burt Lancaster, for his role as Sergeant Warden, in From Here to Eternity...