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...much more reverence for a common prostitute than for a woman who conceals her guilt"), on gout, gunpowder, tanning, brewing, tragic acting, brought it out boldly. Much of the material deleted from the first published version of the Journal deals with the food the friends were served, with too-candid remarks on persons then alive. One strange excision describes a peculiar mood Johnson fell into while discussing linen with Boswell and other admirers. He said that linen showed dirt better than silk and "he had often thought" that if he had a harem he would dress his women in linen...
...symphony orchestras on the Pacific Coast. He will play the piano in joint recitals with Samuel Dushkin. the self-effacing violinist who is devoting his career to Stravinsky's music. Last week Stravinsky's autobiography was published in the U. S.* proved to be a terse, candid book, attempting to clarify a record and a credo which have long seemed enigmatic. Also last week it was announced that another Stravinsky opus will have its world premiere in the U. S. next spring. Edward Warburg and Lincoln Kirstein, wealthy young backers of the American Ballet, have commissioned...
...author of The Gentle Savage is more candid, more skeptical, more modern. Artist Richard Wyndham, depressed by an English January, traveled to the Sudan by air, to the province of Bahr el Ghazal, commonly called "the Bog." His book is memorable for its 48 excellent photographs and for his direct writing about the ways of African whites and native women, about the two handsome models he bought, one for six cows, or approximately ?4. (He tried to hire them, but their parents could see no "difference between a model and a wife.") He writes well about native dances and about...
...Candid General Dill, who well knows that the Arabs still hate the Jews as much as ever, was not deceived into thinking that the suspension of the strike marked the end of Arab-Jewish hostilities. Not Arab benevolence but British might, General Dill admitted, had ended the strike. Declared General Dill: "The decision of the Arab higher committee was almost entirely due to the resolute and energetic action of the British forces...
With this spinal cord of a narrative to hold it together, Kit Brandon is less diffuse than Sherwood Anderson's earlier novels, and Kit's candid puzzlement lacks the somewhat forced naïveté that weakened Beyond Desire and Dark Laughter. Sometimes the author intrudes with speculations about machinery, forest conservation, unemployment, strikes, the TVA, but his interruptions are brief and often effective. "The reader should bear in mind," he says simply, in describing Kit's marriage, "that Kit Brandon was and is a real person, a living American woman. How much of her real story...