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Portrait on a Cameo. Far different from De Lattre, Navarre also proved that he was a different man from his immediate predecessor, General Raoul Salan, a fully competent professional soldier who was handcuffed both by Paris' orders to avoid casualties and by his own lack of military panache...
...Paris apartment houses a Goya, a Reynolds, a portrait of Madame's distinguished Napoleonic ancestor Murat), and a fancier of cats (because of their independence and aloofness), he was once described by a friend: "There is an 18th century fragrance about him. He is a portrait on a cameo from the time of Louis XV. One almost expects ruffles and a powdered wig." But another friend says: "He is the hardest general I know-clever and ruthless. He believes in nothing but the army...
...Cameo Theater (Sun. 10:30 p.m., NBC). First of a three-part presentation of Ibsen's Peer Gynt, with Douglass Montgomery, Claire Luce...
...many ways The Confident Years (1885-1915) is the liveliest and most disciplined book of the five. If it lacks the cameo charm of The World of Washington Irving, it also avoids the saccharine traces of The Flowering of New England. Moreover, the closer Brooks gets to the present, the more aroused he becomes. The book follows his by now familiar pattern. Hopping blithely from region to region, and painting bold frescoes of their literary manners, it brings scores of writers to life in sharp, sympathetic vignettes. Each chapter is richly coated with anecdote and local color; in fact...
...best writers in the world today is a 43-year-old Italian named Alberto Moravia. The U.S. knows him for three books: The Woman of Rome, a realistic portrait of a prostitute, Two Adolescents, in which Moravia writes about the hazards of growing up, and Conjugal Love, a cameo masterpiece about a marriage...