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...Fearful Joy, by Joyce Gary. The life & times of Tabitha Baskett; a new novel by an Englishman who writes in the old meat-and-marrow tradition of English fiction (TIME...
...That Englishman of pleasant ways...
...stuffy fellow exile (British Actor Jack Hawkins) is sandwiched between long, talky sequences picturing Norman-Saxon strife in England. And from time to time the film wanders off on little verbal jags to point up its sentimental moral: that it's a jolly fine thing to be an Englishman...
...write convincingly about a child's reaction to violence is one real test of a novelist's skill. A few novelists have done it surpassingly well, notably Englishman Richard Hughes in his classic High Wind in Jamaica. Frenchman Francois Boyer, a 30-year-old movie scenarist, does not match his predecessors in The Secret Game, but his story is so ingenious that it obscures the fact that he does not entirely succeed...
...visiting anthropologist who knew very little about the U.S.-say, Englishman Geoffrey Gorer-were to read these two collections of stories, he might easily conclude that the U.S. is suffering from a hopeless schizophrenic split. And he might get just as wildly off base by picking up either one by itself...