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This, thought Denmark's Communist daily, was too good to overlook. The ambassador's "escapist" party, crowed Land og Folk, pointed an ugly moral. Said Land og Folk: "It makes one think of other festivals where aristocrats amused themselves by dressing up as plain peasants -that was in the period preceding the French Revolution [when] the people of Versailles fled from reality into a rustic idyll . . . [Today again] exploited masses are rising and claiming their right-but our aristocrats do not want to hear...
...Sons" is hardly escapist fare. Watching the defense of a man break down under the weight of his own guilt is more conducive to morbid fascination than to light-hearted pleasure. The players approach their task with all due reverence for its theme...
They turn to the Enterprise with the same escapist hunger that makes thousands of city-pent slickers buy the Old Farmer's Almanac. They delight in the fillers ("This line fills this column"; "What's good for bee stings?") and the editorials, like the recent one that reminded the governor that "the Androscoggin River stinks again. . . . We have not heard from Governor Hildreth in some time. Does anybody know whatever became...
...taste," burbles Chilean Author María-Luísa Bombal, "the grim, documentary type of writing is overdone today. I prefer-what you call-escape." Because escapist literature is Hollywood's meat, her new novel, House of Mist (Farrar Straus, $2.75), was a natural mouthful (at $125,000) for Producer Hal Wallis. Even without book royalties Author Bombal's literary take is tops for a Latin American writer...
Romantic readers who anticipate a cozy, escapist time-killer are in for a shock: The Mind and Heart of Love is prickly with erudition. But laymen who tackle it will find it a rewarding exercise...