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...good bit of the trouble with 'Briton Hadden' is in its style. Busch is a senior editor on 'Life,' and he writes with all the brightness and clarity that go along with the frequent superficiality of that magazine's prose. There is a tremendous difference between the apparently effortless writing of a real stylist and the glibness that characterizes this book. And Busch's thinking is as glib as are his sentences. He deals more in notions than in ideas; and his book is a sketch, not a biography...
...this is true of 24-year-old Truman Capote, it could explain why the two best stories in this collection are about remarkable ten-and twelve-year-olds. These two stories, Children on Their Birthdays and Jug of Silver, are written with full sympathy for their juveniles and an effortless command of the scene. They could become small classics of their kind...
...among them: the Austrian shepherd Anton Seelos), Emile was never quite satisfied with what he was learning. He began jotting down notes on new theories, would steal up a mountain even at night to try those theories out. Soon he had a style all his own, so fluid and effortless that in 1938 the French Ski Federation adopted it as official. It was a revolution in skiing technique. The French revolution has been spreading ever since...
...last novel is as simple and unpretentious as anything he has ever written. Catalina is no masterpiece; it is merely a disarming little story laid in Spain during the Inquisition and written in a grave and effortless style modeled on the old chronicles, and sometimes edging over into a bland and amusing parody of them. The story concerns an extraordinary occurrence in the town of Castel Rodriguez: a girl named Catalina Perez, comely, virtuous and 16 years old, who has been trampled by a bull and crippled so that she can walk only with a crutch, reports that the Virgin...
Peristaltic Revulsion. In one degree or another, much of his work is an expression of loathing-a peristaltic revulsion of the soul. Waugh grasps at all outward forms-rank, ceremonies, cuisine, evocations of the architecture of once lovely and stately houses-to arrest the effortless slide of the old world into the muck of modernity. Brideshead is such an evocation...