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...Shadow Ran Fast, Sands (9) 10. Modern English Usage, Fowler...
...economy, in which mood is often as important as statistics, the danger was that last week's nagging apprehension, if allowed to spread, could erode an intangible but vital economic asset: business confidence. "We are concerned," said Treasury Secretary Henry Fowler, "with the confidence of people, people in business, people as consumers, people as employees in the future...
...ORDER AND THE NEW, by Wilfred Fowler. A novel about the end of British rule in an African state, written in a very different idiom from most modern fiction-terse, laconic, sinewed prose...
...coming to power by the same standards. If there is a moral to the book, it is the mild one that the African politicians who shout for reform and whoop up riots are essentially the same sort of men as the British consuls they are replacing. Novelist Fowler, who was a colonial officer in Asia and Africa for 30 years, allows himself only the faintest nostalgia; the best of his Africans is a fine old chief who cannot adjust to the disorder of independence and who fights more stubbornly than any Briton to preserve the old, colonial rule...
Although Wood himself is as antique as his author's manner of writing, there will be men with his qualities of mind among the ruling Africans. Such men, Fowler suggests, will be able to calculate the mixed debt of resentment and gratitude they owe to the colonials...