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...much as ever, Commentary warns of the dangers abroad. "I venture the opinion that the idea 'Hate America' is now more deeply anchored in Chinese minds than 'Hate the Jew' was in German minds at any time," wrote Economist Oscar Gass in a perceptive appraisal of recent U.S.-Chinese relations. Even though he feels U.S. diplomatic recognition of Red China is the realistic thing to do, Gass cautions that the Chinese will not "jump with joy." For 13 years, he writes, the "government of China has devoted its talents to building a wall of misinformation...
OMENSETTER'S LUCK by William H. Gass. 304 pages. New American Library...
...Jethro Furber, the outrageously vivid villain of this orgiastically original first novel, William Gass presents a hilarious portrait of the Puritan as a dirty old man. In Brackett Omensetter, the "wide and happy" hero of the book, he offers an archetypal antithesis: "Like the clouds, he was natural and beautiful, like a piece of weather in the room. Life eased from him like a smooth broad crayon line. He knew the secret...
Effluvium is the least amiable excess of which Author Gass is guilty. At his worst he spates obscurities like a jejune Joyce; at his best he generates images like the navel of the demiurge itself. And the images reflect ideas. Gass is a trained thinker, a professor of philosophy at Purdue University, and in this fable he enlivens the weary old war between good and evil with curt communiqués and rakingly comic crossfire...
...small group--estimated to be less than one-half than one per cent of all workers--who might be adversely affected by a sharp increase in imports." Several hundred times? Even in Heaven, 200 times one-half per cent is already one hundred per cent. As Oscar Gass said in the New Republic, commenting on Kennedy's statement, "Here we attain a limit of fantasy where all other competitors are left breathless...