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...effect on Americans. Few books in a dozen years have provoked such a burst of prompt, wide and heart-searching reviews. Verdicts have come not only from the professional book reviewers but from philosophers, historians and freelance intellectuals. They compared Whittaker Chambers (favorably or unfavorably) to St. Augustine, Rousseau, Casanova, Lincoln Steffens, Ulysses S. Grant, Lanny Budd. Adjectives chased one another across the pages: "terrible," "penetrating," "poignant," "unbelievable," "great," "boring," "thrilling," "overwritten," "embarrassing," "fascinating." Whatever their outlook, almost all reviewers agreed that the book was an event in contemporary history, and ought to be read...
Under the firm hand of Communist Leader Laurent Casanova, some 70 French sculptors, painters and art critics got together in Paris last week for what was loudly proclaimed as "an exchange of views." Net result: everyone signed a letter listing the things all good artists should be for & against. What they were against: 1) the Korean war, 2) U.S.-made A-bombs, 3) the "horrors of bacteriological warfare." What they were for: "An art which will draw inspiration from socialist realism and be understood by the working class." Among the signers was one French artist who has tried just about...
...prediction that Jordan would leave Harvard-to fill the vacancy left by former coach Len Casanova appeared in the Boston Daily Record under Dave Egan's byline. This story listed alleged "irreconcilable differences" between Jordan and the administration...
Later, however, Jordan told the Associated Press that he had not seen or spoken to Hamilton about the vacancy left by the resignation of Len Casanova. "I understand that Tom has been interviewing candidates for the job in Pittsburgh," Jordan is reported as saying, "but I have not applied for the job. As a matter of fact, I have never applied for any job I have ever held...
What follows is predictable, yet always moving. As Silvio loses himself in his literary obsession, Leda becomes bored, is seduced by a commonplace Casanova, Silvio's barber. In a climax of selfdiscovery, Silvio realizes that his wife has been unfaithful, that he is a failure as a writer, and that most of their troubles are his own fault. Humbled, he hopes to patch up his marriage: "To accept my status as a human being ... a decent fellow . . . modestly conscious of his own limitations ... the lover, and the beloved, of a young and beautiful wife...