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...judgments are ideal for those who would rather sample the wine label than the wine. But even these insecure customers can find little solace in The Best. Many of its items are mere common sense (the Best Chess Player Other Than Bobby Fischer: Boris Spassky). Many more are only clothbound Consumer Reports (the Best Camera Under $100: the Japanese Olympus 355P...
Until recently, the country's budget was recorded by longhand in a grey, clothbound ledger by an old friend of Saud's father. Now there is a published annual budget, and last year Saud established a national economic planning board, with a former officer of the World Bank acting as adviser. But the adviser's plan for a $10 million survey of northern territories is snared in a maze of royal bureaucratic procedure; out of $70 million earmarked for development, $50 million is unspent...
...SEASON ON EARTH (115 pp.) -Kenneth Koch-Grove (clothbound $3.50; paperback...
...SQUARE, by Marguerite Duras (118 pp.; Grove; clothbound, $3.50; papperback, $1.45). A nursemaid meets a man in a village square; they talk, while the child plays, of how it is possible to go on living. The man travels about selling five-and-dime notions from a suitcase. He is able to live, he says, because he is without hope; his life will not change, and he does not mind. The girl, on the other hand, endures a dreary job because she lives in hope of finding a husband. Life is bleak for each of them; he lives from meal...
JEALOUSY, by Alain Robbe-Grillet (149 pp.; Grove; clothbound, $3.50; paperback, $1.75). The author admires cinema techniques, and his book would make an excellent art-house movie. But like his earlier work, The Voyeur (TIME, Oct. 13, 1958), it is also thoroughly irritating. A prosaic love triangle is established on a remote banana plantation-a planter (the book's nameless narrator), his wife and a neighboring plantation owner. If this were one of Paul Bowles's African novels of sin and sun, the weather would cloud up on cue, providing a timpani accompaniment to the heroine...