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Kenneth Roberts came across this diary while researching his latest novel, Lydia Bailey (TIME, Jan. 6), and got all excited about it. Written in French, and almost unknown in the U.S., the diary was a sophisticated study, by an observant French emigre, of the callow U.S. of the 1790s. Roberts...
Now the emigres listened longingly to Mother Russia's call. Somehow the gulf between Tsar and Commissar seemed not so vast any more. The years had made them more Russian than White, their children more Red than White. The homeland had mellowed, too. To prove it, Shanghai's...
"The mass of men," wrote Thoreau from the fir-scented tranquillity of Walden Pond, "lead lives of quiet desperation." In periods of accelerated history, the organic rot of Rome, the collapse of the Middle Ages, the gigantic life & death struggles of 20th-century civilization, this desperation takes on a new...
At first Prokofiev, the ex-emigre, was held suspect by the others, but the indus try with which he turned out marching songs and heroic legends during the war, despite recent stretches of illness, seems to have proved his musical patriotism.
Briefly and the plot is simple enough to be briefly suggested. "You Touched Me: is about an English-Canadian air force leftenant (Montgomery Clift) who visits his fester home after an absence of more than five years looking ostensibly for the kindness he has missed is an orphan and an...