Word: gladwin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...DESERT IN THE HEART (249 pp.)-Peter Gladwin-Rinehart...
...this first novel, an Australian newspaperman living and working in London hammers home an old truth: people can't help being what they are and suffering the consequences. What keeps Author Peter Gladwin from seeming merely to ring changes on an old cliche is a combination of life and modesty in his writing. The Desert in the Heart does not try for much; it achieves sympathy for its people through the simple device of dealing with them sympathetically...
What Author Gladwin does is to get small-town lives scraping against each other in a way that leaves skin burns. He does not keep his story moving, his chapters are episodic, and sometimes he forgets his important people while he enjoys an aside with a minor character. But when his characters talk, it is hard not to listen; all the more because their Australian vernacular is lively and unfamiliar. And the chief characters are something more than made-ups whom Author Gladwin pushes about at will. Gladwin is, in fact, that most hopeful and doubtful kind of writer...
After the tests finally began, the Army officially permitted correspondents to interview only twelve G.I.s who took part, although the other thousands will soon be dispersed in camps throughout the U.S., and telling other soldiers what happened. Said the New York Times's Gladwin Hill: "All this uncertainty presumably has had the desired effect of confusing the Russians. . . it also promises equally to confuse the American public, on whose support the work depends...