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FUTURE INDEFINITE (352 pp.)-Noel Coward-Doubleday...
...Somewhere over the border" Castillo Armas this week proclaimed a "provisional government" and issued his first fiery statement. "The dawn of liberation illuminates our land," it said. "The glorious struggle has begun against tyranny, treason, deceit and shame . . . Assault the garrisons of the Communists and capture them. They are cowards!" A certain amount of hyperbole is doubtless permissible in a manifesto issued on such an emotional occasion; Castillo Armas probably knows quite well that some Communists are cowards and some are nothing of the sort. And while he may regard Fellow Traveler Arbenz as a tyrant or a traitor...
...Legislative Yuan, some called Wu a liar and a coward. In Evanston, Wu replied: "I know that we cannot afford to wash our dirty linen abroad . . . But if the National Assembly wants me to tell the facts . . . I'm prepared to back up my statements any time...
...play means too much to mean-as a felt experience-much of anything at all. The meaning is not rooted in the farce, only squeezed out of it. In The Cocktail Party, the very symbol of a cocktail party, the central role of the psychiatrist, the prevailing Noel Coward morality and manners, expressed something immensely relevant to modern life; audiences might fiercely quarrel with Eliot's cure, but they could not deny the disease. But The Confidential Clerk pierces to the spirit without cutting through any flesh. There are moments of illumination, but in general the story, even where...
...LADY FOR RANSOM (274 pp.)] - Alfred Duggan - Coward-McCann...