Word: chipped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...newsstands this week will appear a new journal of opinion: National Review. The editor and publisher: young (29) William F. (God and Man at Yale) Buckley Jr. The first issue combines a conservative line (far to the right of the Eisenhower Administration) with a chip-on-shoulder, fiercely partisan tone reminiscent of left-wing weeklies in the '30s. _ Leading a staff that numbers such onetime left-wingers as James Burnham and Eugene Lyons, Editor Buckley declares ward on "the Liberals, who run this country." Of the 120 backers who put up $290,000 to launch National Review according...
...clanging manhole cover. Life may end as a pickled monstrosity in a jar of alcohol; with Bradbury, in The Jar, that end is only a beginning. There are 19 stories in this book, but the best of the lot is more rib-tickling than spine-tingling. The Watchful Poker Chip of H. Matisse tells of a fellow called George Garvey, so indescribably dull and ordinary that he becomes the pet of an avant-garde group, as a symbol, apparently, of what is wrong with bourgeois U.S. They take to hanging out in his respectable apartment and quoting his unquotable bromides...
...wishes he could do more, and one eye obediently goes blind. No Hathaway-shirt eye patches for him. He commissions Henri Matisse to paint him a blue-eyed poker chip as a monocle. Harper's Bazaar publishes Garvey's picture with his Matisse eye, and soon half the intelligentsia are playing poker with trompe-l'oeil chips. The neat little spoof suggests that Bradbury would do very well if he came out from under that fright...
ROBERT BENCHLEY, by Nafhaniel Benchley (258 pp.; McGraw-Hill; $3.95), is a son's biography of one of the funniest men the U.S. ever produced. No chip off the old block, son Nathaniel rather unsuccessfully relies on love and anecdotes to do what few writers have ever been able to achieve: a funny book on the anatomy of another man's humor...
...most part, this anthology of "Americas second most popular after-dark activity" consists of short classics-from Stephen Crane's A Poker Game to John OHara's Where's the Game? -still worth more than a white chip. Some of them, though, seem to begin after the deal has started and end before the reader gets his fifth card. Best of the lot, perhaps, is Somerset Maugham's Straight Flush, a poignant tale of a man burdened with failing eyesight, and not idiocy, who chose the one time in 64,973 chances to misread his hand...