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...gloomiest and loveliest volumes of European legend. Translated to a Mexican setting by B. Traven, a mysterious recluse (TIME, Aug. 16, 1948) who lives in Mexico and writes masterly proletarian novels and short stories, the legend has been transformed by two gifted Mexicans, Director Roberto Gavaldon and Cameraman Gabriel Figueroa, into a fragile but profound little picture that abounds and delights in the black-and-white magic of the magic lantern...
Primitive Pooling. Monnet's tough peasant heritage is stamped in his broad face and his short, stocky, muscular body. His paternal grandfather, a farmer-mayor of Cognac, lived to the age of 102. Jean Monnet's mother lived to be 87, his father, Jean Gabriel, to 83. A staunch conservative. Jean Gabriel used to warn young Jean that "every new idea is bound to be a bad idea." There is no evidence that Jean paid any attention...
...Jean Gabriel Monnet founded the brandy firm of J. G. Monnet & Co., groomed Jean and his brother Gaston to be his international salesmen. There was to be no nonsense of a university education for his sons. And in the local Cognac high school, Jean showed little intellectual promise anyway: he had, and still has, a poor memory, and floundered in the rote system of French instruction. At 18, Jean was sent off to Canada to peddle brandy in the raw Canadian boom towns of 1906 such as Calgary, Moose Jaw and Medicine Hat. He was pleasantly surprised by the absence...
BROTKERLY LOVE (282 pp.)-Gabriel Fielding-Morrow...
...Gabriel Fielding's books about the Blaydons are intended as a major effort "to explore the moral and spiritual values of the confused middle class of our time." This central concern makes young John Blaydon considerably more important than that stock figure of current British fiction, the "sensitive young man." In Blaydon's comic failures in love, his hopeless involvement with family, and his fumbling exploration of religion and politics, Author Fielding finds mirror images of the society John Blaydon so uneasily inhabits...