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...GOLDEN HORIZON (596 pp.)-Edited by Cyril Connolly-British Book Centre...
Metaphysical Pingpong. Modern Italian Short Stories, compiled by Marc Slonim, is saturated with what Critic Cyril Connolly once called "the memory of physical pleasure, with sunshine and salt water, with food, wine and making love, and with the remorse which is the shadow of that sun." Serving up life as if it were a huge platter of prosciutto and melon, the Italian authors offer highly palatable reading on such subjects as the folly of an old fool in love (Pratolini's A Mistress of Twenty, Italo Svevo's This Indolence of Mine), the dark rapture of revenge (Cesare...
...CYRIL OSBORNE, M.P. House of Commons London
...burst out in a storm of rage). The secret police were in her pocket. In affairs of state, "nothing was decided without her knowledge"; in the Seven Years' War (in which France lost her Canadian colony and most of her money), La Pompadour was responsible, as Critic Cyril Connolly says, for "aligning her country with all that was reactionary in Europe against all that was progressive...
From this point on, it is fairly clear that Saadia is not about sex, but then, it is not about much of anything else, either. There is a witch (Wanda Rotha) who changes into an owl and a Holy Man (Cyril Cusack) who declares that Saadia "has a soul capable of the most extraordinary action." In fact, she turns out to be a sort of North African Calamity Jane, who rides off into the badlands, carves up a bandit chief, steals back some serum he has stolen, and so saves the country from a bubonic plague...