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...prevailing trends in espionage-crime literature today go in opposite directions. One heads toward the pure escapism of Fleming flimflam, the other never comes in from the cold of procedural realism. The current best of the two worlds...
...these notions. As to the second, the Diary will not sell sex, since the subject is presented at its worst-neither for play, passion nor procreation, but as a something-or-other that promotes the spiritual development of a prig. It is woeful stuff-the sort of Promethean flimflam that steams up from a painfully protracted puberty. One other question lingers in the mind: How was the author of this stupefyingly pretentious piffle ever mistaken for a young man of genius by London's most eminent critics...
...Some Flimflam. There is considerable flimflam even in this claim of meager cost cutting. Part of the "economizing" results from postal-rate increases already in effect. Another part is based on the hope-which may or may not be fulfilled-that private lenders will take over from the Federal Government several hundred million dollars worth of housing loans and farm price-support loans...
Some of the reasons for U.S. disinter est and Russian interest are clear in Wilson's latest novel. Written at too much length and with too little imagination, it intermingles scientific razzle-dazzle, political flimflam, and wishy-washy...
Hans loses out, of course, but not until Ustinov has worked some of the most quixotic flimflam in recent fiction. Characters deliver speeches that are fluent and often funny but almost never credible. What The Loser leaves behind is a sense of regret that so many nice touches have been wasted, so much comic flair dissipated in a search for what is obviously a serious statement about war, its terrors and follies...