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What compelled him to this air-clearing candor? Why did he have to erase the effects of months of Soviet propaganda...
...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...
...Boswell concluded his tour, he was pleased with the results. With characteristic candor he wrote, "What a singular being do I find myself!... I have a noble soul which still shines forth, a certain degree of knowledge, a multiplicity of ideas of all kinds, an original humor and turn of expression, and, I really believe, a remarkable knowledge of human nature...
...whole week, when he was away in Hawaii, Esperanza's home-loving house guest was Hotel Heir Nicky Hilton. At week's end, the Waynes agreed to agree on money, but John still intended to have his day in court. Hollywood was touched by his pained candor as he drawled: "I deeply regret that I'll have to sling...
...Frenchmen who wish he had never learned to write. At 20, in 1945, Nimier joined the French 2nd Hussar Regiment and wound up in Germany at war's end. Five years later, in The Blue Hussar, he described French troops in action and occupation with a bite and candor that made most U.S. war novelists seem like self-pitying recruits. Now, even in a tasteless and jazzed-up translation, it is a novel that still manages to surmount the irritation it induces...