Word: happeners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Elmore's letter . . . moves me to pen a defense for Mrs. E. . . . I heartily agree that children are little brats and that having the unsolicited job of caring for them is frustrating, to say the least. I know, because I happen to have one who is unusually sweet and well-mannered by most standards of childhood behavior...
...when another university wanted to borrow a professor even for a six-month lectureship, they wrote a polite letter asking our permission. Now they just send a telegram direct to the professor, offering him a permanent job. The only way I hear about it is if I happen to run into the professor with his furniture on his back...
...NEVER HAPPEN (182 pp.)-V. S. Pritchett-Reynal & Hitchcock...
...habit of judging other men's books seems to dry up a critic's ability to write effective fiction of his own. But not in Victor Sawdon Pritchett's case. The 14 stories in It May Never Happen are proof that a first-rate critic may also become a fine storyteller. Pritchett's reviews in London's liberal New Statesman and Nation are highbrow; they are also incisive and discriminating. Pritchett considers his story writing "an endless chewing of the cud of experience, an effort to digest; and also a desire to fill...
Like most Shute novels, The Chequer Board is readable even when it is incredible. Its chief weakness is that things happen only because Novelist Shute makes them happen, not because character and situation make them inevitable. Few readers will find credible the situation in which a neighbor discusses the son of the Negro G.I. by his English wife: "My dear, I must tell you what the Vicar said about him. ... I asked him to come and see the baby here before the christening because I thought he might not like it about the color. . .. And he said, [the baby...