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LEONARD H. FABER...
Last week the sometimes gloomy subject of the postwar world got a laugh at last. Out of Britain came the most amusing satire of World War II. Called The Adventures of the Young Soldier in Search of the Better World (Faber & Faber, 6s.), it is a breezy but atrabilious burlesque at the expense of postwar plan ners. Author: Britain's bearded, ebullient Cyril Edwin Mitchinson Joad, who in the last ten years has espoused pacifism, Mosleyism, polygamy, socialism, appeasement, Christianity, spiritualism, hedonism. He has also written some earnest, reputable books of philosophy, become one of the most popular members...
...able to get continuous time to do under these [wartime] conditions." Getting much continuous time can have been no easy job. When, in 1939, Eliot ended his 16-year-old Criterion, the most distinguished literary quarterly in the language, he was tired. Today he is 1) a director of Faber & Faber, publishers; 2) advisory editor of The Christian Newsletter; 3) commentator in the New English Weekly (Eliot's latest contribution is an essay, Notes Towards a Definition of Culture); 4) church warden of Anglo-Catholic St. Stephen's, in London's respectable Kensington; 5) British Council lecturer...
...leading role, and also director of the play, will be Kurt von Faber du Faur, who has been in charge of many presentations at the University of Goettingen and in Florence. Other members of the cast will include Harvard instructors and students from the College and Radcliffe...
...DYNAMIC DEFENCE-Faber & Faber (London...