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...about the New York World's Fair. It had been previewed, opened, featured, highlighted and was even beginning to produce its own cliches. But there had been no intensive critique of it in the sense that, say, a theater critic reviews a play. McPhee and Researcher Nancy Gay Faber went to and from Flushing Meadow by car, subway, train and hydrofoil, walked and rode through the grounds, stood in the longest lines, went to literally every pavilion, park and exhibit. One day McPhee took two of his daughters, aged three and five, and stayed for more than ten hours...
...York, the story was researched by Nancy Gay Faber, written by Douglas Auchincloss and edited by A. T. Baker. We hope you'll think...
...books are brief and taut, and he is contemptuous of jumbo novels "for women who lie on sofas all day." But his best book, he feels, is a long novel about Lord Nelson and Lady Hamilton. It is called Sir William, and will be published in England by Faber & Faber. Stacton's U.S. sales have been meager, and his American publisher has no present plans to issue the book...
...rest of Miss Dawson's characters suffer in comparison with her heroine, but they are by no means inadequate. Rarely does one suspect them of existing only to focus Josephine's speculations about the world. Her lover, Alasdair Faber, is considerably more probable than his name implies; his combination of worldly sophistication and angry disenchantment reveals itself clearly in the remarks he addresses to Josephine...
...orated poems that Eliot seemed conscious that he was reading publicly, and then he was magnificent. (An exception to all categories, of course, is his delightful "cat" poetry. He read a charming sort of Browning monologue given by an alley cat named Morgan, who wandered into the offices of Faber and Faber in London during the Little Blitz...