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Three more articles round out the November Comment. David N. Klausner's "Death by Half Life" is fully as morbid as the author intended it to be. Arthur Springer's defense of the peace movement has moments of eloquence. And Peter Scharfman's didactic book review is provocative, but jumps...
THE standards of excellence of modern English light fiction--comfortable clarity and generous wit--are, like Shakespeare's standards, centered in that purest of human pleasures, a garden, this one the size of shire, and tended until her recent death by the softly malicious and completely delightful Angela Thirkell. Those...
In the Gutter. Cancer is a picaresque-didactic novel whose hero is a monster of eloquence, a high-spirited low character-Henry Miller. At one level it is a long locker-room anecdote told with unquenchable gusto by a born raconteur, anxious that all should share the grandeurs and miseries...
BEACON HILL: Juley Dassin's NEVER ON SUNDAY is not as good as he thinks it is, but it nevertheless must rank as well as one of the ten best foreign films of 1960. Despite an excruciating musical score, a didactic plot, and some rather pointless satire about American do...
Nickelodeon Sentiment. Although In the Swamp is surrealist in technique, with enigmatic central characters who are symbolic rather than human, the minor figures-rogues all-are marvelously funny and thoroughly human. From this point on, Brecht's plays fork in these two directions: the symbolic-didactic and the raffish...