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Wise Blood commands attention for its oddness, and for its occasional passages of crisp writing and sly humor. But all too often it reads as if Kafka had been set to writing the continuity for L'il Abner...
...most was the West's decision to give Germany a new, healthy currency. Shops were empty, factories at a standstill because farmers and businessmen refused to sell their products for worthless Reichsmarks. One day in June 1948, a convoy of army trucks pulled into Pforzheim, bringing stacks of crisp, new Deutsche marks. Pforzheimers queued all day to exchange their old money for new. The city was transformed. Farmers glutted the market with fruit and vegetables; shop windows filled with furniture, cosmetics and shoes...
...biographical mountain climbers, the figure of Winston Churchill rears up as formidably as Mt. Everest. One reason is that the last word on Churchill is usually by Churchill. Wisely hugging the foothills of anecdote, Robert Lewis Taylor, the New Yorker profiler, has put together a crisp, readable "informal study of greatness." Unable to wangle a single interview with the "old man in a hurry," he nonetheless brings the old showman onstage for every star turn of his dramatic life...
Hand to the plow, which won the first prize, boasts a very clear, almost slick style. This macabre story of a subtle murder, emblemished with crisp dialogue and painstaking detail, seems like a strange marriage of Edgar Allen Poe and Hamlin Garlin. Miss Leonard has constructed her slice of horror carefully and correctly, slipping the stilleto in exactly the right place at the right time. Although this is a cool, professional job, it does not have the strength of personal involvement that the Stewart story...
...Faces of 1952 is a crisp, cheerfully intimate revue that should somehow be funnier. The most professional of Leonard Silurian's various New Faces, it looks trim and moves fast. It is full of sophisticated ideas to be sung or spoken; it exhibits a bunch of likable new faces, a few of which should catch the spotlight more & more. But the product is not quite up to the packaging. For all its expensive gloss, its Raoul Pene du Bois sets and John Murray Anderson staging, it never really bankrolls 'em in the aisles...