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...British Poet and Critic Stephen Spender is now a respected and respectable member of the tight little club that is London's literary set. This week in the New York Times Book Review, while pondering the effects of togetherness on himself and his friends, Spender offered a fascinating guidebook for nonmembers...
Living Japan (Doubleday; 1959) by Donald Keene, associate professor of Japanese at Columbia University. A handsomely illustrated introduction to present-day Japanese life; an excellent guidebook for first visitors...
Next day the smiles faded. A Vatican spokesman said that Authenticator Porcella had indeed worked for the Vatican-for a short period more than 24 years ago on a guidebook. The Italian government, which keeps tab on its art experts, said that Citizen Porcella was not listed as a first-rate expert, or even as a second-rate one. A Chicago art dealer named Jack Shore, president of the Sheridan Galleries, proudly revealed that Porcella had authenticated half a dozen similar masterpieces for him in the past year (among them a "Leonardo"). All were restored by Zlatoff-Mirsky, whom Shore...
Using the Bible as a guidebook, Glueck traced the wanderings of the Children of Israel in their exodus from Egypt, searched for relics of the Edomites, Naba-taeans and other long-vanished peoples. The jaunts were no picnics; the temperature touched 113°, and Arab guerrillas infested the wild country. "It's a little less dangerous than it used to be," says Rabbi Glueck. "In former years we traveled with machine guns and grenades. Now we have only rifles...
...easy, after a few years at Harvard), will find both books full of old friends sensitively observed and old enemies devastatingly put down. For any outsiders doing research on the attributes and attitudes of this group, Mr. Feiffer's two-volume oeuvre will be a necessity, almost a guidebook...