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...white man's burden in a small Burmese settlement. Orwell obviously hated British rule there enough to be tempted into caricature, but his justness never allowed it. He knew his Englishmen and he knew his natives; at times he seems closer to their basic deadlock than E. M. Forster in his great A Passage to India...
...fantasy, as E. M. Forster has said, "asks us to pay something extra" by way of credence or adjustment. In addition, this particular fantasy boasts far better symbolism than it does story. But The Enchanted is saved from any allegorical pallor or patness, from any insistent contrast of illusion with reality (e.g., romantic yearnings for the moon with realistic cultivation of gardens) by its doubling back on itself and by its gay, vigilant irony. Through the inspector, Giraudoux pokes merciless fun at literal-mindedness, practical wisdom, bureaucratic palaver. Yet he knows, and expresses with the sad sparkle...
Disturbed by talk that dramatic gains are being made by the Roman Catholic Church in England, the Most Rev. Cyril Forster Garbett, Anglican Archbishop of York, had his say on the subject in his monthly diocesan letter, published last week...
Professional Pride. In Miami, Mrs. Marian Smith Steeves, home economics instructor at the University of Miami, charged in a divorce suit that her husband complained about her cooking. In Miami, William Forster, onetime New York policeman, sued for divorce on the ground that his wife "intimidated...
Many people, alarmed by these possibilities, wish that science could be "stopped." Novelist E. M. Forster has denounced the "implacable offensive of Science," blaming it for the world's present confusion...