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...have expected her to have a good seat on a horse." "Her achievement," Critic Edward Weeks has said of Author de la Roche, "makes me think of Trollope and Galsworthy." In fact, Author de la Roche's achievement seems to be that she knows that Jalna's changeless orchards, spaniels, horses and horseplay are just what a lot of city-pent readers are grateful for. She is to her worldwide audience what bedroom slippers are to tired feet-cozy, roomy, unashamedly woolly and beyond artistic criticism...
...this up is to review Conant's record. More than other Harvard presidents, his task has been reconciling education to a new world, a world which began with violent depression and has continued with a running battle among values for public accaim. Where once education neatly divided between seemingly changeless principles and attacks on those principles, attacks as static as their targets, all that has has now changed. The familiar boundaries were swept away in the thirties, replaced by intellectual chaos...
...this blending of history and modernity, of changing and changeless things, that gives Men at Arms its weight and vision. By the end of the volume the Halberdiers have not done much more than finish their training, but Waugh has already completed them as individual representatives of an ancient nation turning a new page of its history. Sometimes the load is too much for his stature and he reverts (particularly where the "Thunder Box" is concerned) to scatological burlesque. Sometimes his passion for bloodshed and his awe of warriors like Ritchie-Hook so dull his intelligence that he becomes absurd...
Push, Don't Pay. What gives the changeless Bemelmans world its hard-wearing longevity is that it belongs neither to pure fact nor pure fiction. Its borders extend to Palm Beach and Hollywood, but its heartland is Europe-not the Europe of Gide or Aneurin Bevan, but a continent whose inhabitants behave as if Strauss operettas and books by Bemelmans were their sole guides to everyday life. In Bemelmans' Europe, all is eternally prewar, in mood if not in time: the Rolls-Royces glide forever down the poplar-lined avenues to the magic chateaux of mysterious princesses...
Legend of Lovers is a bewilderment of contrasts: between realistic and romantic love, cynicism and idealism, the claims of life, impermanent and impure, and those of changeless Death, to whom Anouilh grants a rather mawkish victory. The play has its merits. Amid so many varieties of love, it at least excludes Hollywood's. There are vivid counterpointings, piquant juxtapositions. Eldon Elder's set is splendidly striking; and though Dorothy McGuire seems partly mystified and partly miscast as the girl, Richard Burton, as her lover, plays a difficult role persuasively. But the play grows tedious with saucy twists...