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Two years ago, we embarked on a rather rugged hitchhiking tour of the western U.S. Although traveling with only knapsacks on our backs, we found room for a stove, transistor radio, camera and a fishing pole.
Flying on to Canada, the weary Sandys got a brusque reception. He was flown from Montreal to Ottawa in a creaking old DC-3, while a Nigerian trade mission arriving the same day was assigned a plush government Viscount. At the bargaining table, the Canadians demanded not only assurances of...
Pearl Fishers' most conspicuous weakness is the one that plagued Bizet through much of his career-a limp libretto. Laid in Ceylon, it has to do with a colony of Indian pearl fishermen, two of whom are in love with a mysterious local priestess. After three talky acts, one...
What then is left? The same three novels, the forty-nine stories, "The Old Man and the Sea." If it is no longer a "new" way of seeing, or even the most profound, it is still relevant and affecting. Never was style so involved with, so much one and the...
Among major modern U.S. writers, Hemingway showed more internal discipline than Faulkner, who has ruined half his books with careless rhetorical obscurity, and more personal integrity than Fitzgerald, who potboiled and drank away the greatest natural gifts of the three as a novelist. Unlike Faulkner and Fitzgerald, Hemingway rarely dealt...