Word: englisher
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...1930s with the clear fidelity of his discs as with his smooth, glossy jazz style; of cancer; in London. Noble used a cavernous sound studio to capture a new resonance when he recorded his popular songs (Goodnight, Sweetheart; By the Fireside; The Very Thought of You), then became an English stooge on American radio with Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy...
...wizened spouses, gazing blankly through their horn-rims: blazing signs the size of provincial churches; all-leg girls and cowboys teetering on their long heels like human stilts. The drawings testify to America's unutterable strangeness in the eyes of a young European who could not as yet speak English. "Individuals unmasking themselves only to reveal other masks," Rosenberg notes in his essay, "verbal cliches masquerading as things, a countryside that is an amalgam of all imported styles, an outlook that is at once conventional and futuristic?America was made to order for Steinberg...
...assigned to Intelligence and posted successively to Ceylon, to Calcutta and then, masquerading as a weather observer with the 14th Air Force (his knowledge of meteorology being slight), to Kunming in China. His task was to act as a go-between with friendly Chinese guerrillas. Since he spoke little English and less Chinese, he drew pictures for them. It was a small but poignant metaphor of once r ...... and future Sino-American incomprehension...
...Blond Baboon by Janwillem van de Wetering (Houghton Mifflin; $7.95). The Dutch-born author, 47, who has sojourned in many exotic places and once lived in a Buddhist monastery in Japan, now inhabits Maine and writes cleaner English prose than many a Yankee aspirant. However, his stories are still set, with occasional departures (The Japanese Corpse), in Amsterdam, where his sleuths have taken over the turf once occupied by Nicolas Freeling's late, lamented Inspector Van der Valk. Van de Wetering's latest Dutch treat, starring the familiar trio of Detectives Grijpstra and de Gier and their commissaris...
Death of an Expert Witness by P.D. James (Scribner's; $8.95). Since James, 57, is English and a woman, she is frequently hailed as a worthy successor to Christie, Sayers, Margery Allingham and Ngaio Marsh. James' knowledge of locale (in this case, East Anglia's murky, misty fen country) and contemporary mores (some pretty kinky), her familiarity with forensic science (which is what Expert's plot is mostly about) and keen psychological insight, all mark her as an original. Her seventh and best mystery novel brings back Scotland Yard's Adam Dalgliesh, who writes offbeat...