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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Over & over, in the context of world war, these essays shift from an easy equability to the sort of fierceness with which gentle men sometimes astonish bullies...
Scattered throughout the volume are short vignettes of men and institutions which are well worth reading even without regard for the general context. Professor Guerard has the advantages of a Gallic mind thoroughly at home in the English idiom, and his sparking deftness of phrase makes him delightful reading. However much one may disagree with his conclusions, the author has proved himself competent to handle his subject matter, and has done it in a most entertaining manner...
Ranging in subject from the philosophically cosmic to the personal love-affair, Brinnin remains contemporary in context and imagery. The poet's "wasteland" is constantly evident in the volume, but this poet also finds room for hope and for reaffirmation of individual dignity. Poems like "Every Earthly Creature" and "O Troubled Heart" combine an honest appraisal of the shortcomings of our age with an artist's answer to contemporary despair, and thus add philosophic depth to the poignant cry for lost riches in lyrics like "Prague." If, ultimately, it is in the more personal lyrics, such as "Dissertation on Whose...
...Elmer and Lily, a revue for Negroes, a little boy walks "like a good prize fighter returning to his corner . . . after a round in which he has done very well" and says: "Harry Walker, that's my name." ^ Talking to You, a straight dream, constructs a context of strange beauty in which the following lyric occurs...
This Lent a pocket-sized book, a simplified collection of Christ's words, has reappeared.* The Complete Sayings of Jesus (John C. Winston Co.; $1) claims to be the first attempt to extract the sayings of Christ-with chronological notes and just enough of the Biblical context to bridge the transition between Christ's sayings. Its purpose: "With the world in flames, a little book which makes it possible to read in two short hours every recorded word Christ ever spoke is a vital contribution toward what our people need, want and are receptive to right...