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...PASSION IN ROME (352 pp.)-Morley Callaghan-Coward-McCann...
...most recent book to attain its majority before it left the publisher's delivery room is A Passion in Rome, by Morley Callaghan, a 58-year-old Canadian, whose work has the compelling attraction, to lovers of literary underdogs, of being largely unread. Alfred Kazin, a critic of high reputation, has called its author "a fine artist," and Edmund Wilson, whose stature is even more Olympian, wrote last year that Callaghan's work "may be mentioned without absurdity in association with Chekhov's and Turgenev...
...Callaghan's hero is Sam Raymond, a high-priced photographer who despises his craft and yearns to be, naturally, a painter. At 39, he has decided that his canvases are worthless and his life pointless. He flies to Rome to do a picture story on the dying Pope Pius for a Canadian weekly, and there, wandering about late at night, meets a drunken, beautiful girl. Sam asks directions of her, and she drifts on. But later, though he did but see her lurching by, Sam realizes that he is in love. He decides to find the girl and salvage...
Maybe it is, and maybe it isn't, but in this earnest, dull book, Callaghan proves only that Sam is a sod and the girl is a tedious alky. Chekhov, anyone...
...breakfast," cried Laborite M.P. James Callaghan. "I say frankly that I do not begin to understand it." But Welensky seemed happy enough at the outcome. Not so Kaunda, whose blacks-95% of the population-would have a large voice in the legislature for the first time, but no guaranteed, clear-cut majority. Kaunda, 37, is normally a mild-mannered man and conspicuously dedicated to the ways of moderation. But he returned from London shaking with fury. Angrily declaring that Macleod had given the blacks advance assurance of a "small majority," he announced: "The British government has completely betrayed...