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...individuality so tautly drawn between the twin Spanish columns of dignity and passion could never conform to the crude consequences of his own controverting eloquence. His victories defeated him. Three years before Hitler came to power, Ortega wrote a famous book with the prophetic title: The Revolt of the Masses. In the U.S., and in Europe as well, it was a Depression-time bestseller, whose striking Nietzschean phrases punctuated parlor talk and political arguments about whether, in the 20th century technological civilization, mass man tends to supplant the elite...
...move about at will. Unexplained guests came and went. Rude prison fare was augmented with Epicurean delicacies. Many prison inmates began to take their breakfast in bed, and often, at the dinner hour, they wandered out for an apéritif in the village cafés. A crude guard who protested such goings-on was sternly reprimanded by Warden Billa. "These men," said the warden, "are intellectuals. This is a special case." To Billa himself, the prisoners returned kindness for kindness. One night, when two prisoners found Billa lying drunk on the sidewalk, they thoughtfully loaded him into...
...crude, it was shocking bad form, but it did get results. The patrons swung around in their chairs, stared in stupefaction as the bandit ordered the cashier to fill a paper sack he threw toward her. Then, clutching the sack, containing $285, he scuttled out the door. It was the first time in all its 47 years, the management announced, that the hotel had suffered the indignity of a robbery. Such a moment could not go unrecorded. The Vancouver Sun, which occasionally yields to the temptation to tweak Victoria's stiff upper lip, assigned star Cartoonist Len Norris...
...story outline is familiar enough to newspaper readers: Angel Chavez, a teenage boy of Mexican descent, is on trial for the murder of a girl who died of a heart attack when Angel made a crude pass at her. Glenn Ford, as a young university law instructor who is out for trial experience, takes on the boy's case in association with a shrewd legal eagle played by Arthur...
...Idol Maker" by Bruce Fearing is the best of a mediocre bunch of stories. A penetrating study of an habitual young liar and his motives for lying, Fearing's story is written and concluded strikingly. His style, however, betrays a small debt to Faulkner ("Jimmy looked at the crude statuette in the palm of his hand. LIAR, LIAR, LIAR, he squeezed it, hoping it would crumble to pieces. . ."), a debt which is hardly concealed by the use of capitals. Although Fearing's story is not likely to live on in anthologies, it is still the best in a rather scant...