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...scarlet, performs the duties of acolyte; the goblet of wine is placed between the breasts of the recumbent virgin and a part of the wine is spilled over her body. At the supreme moment, the sacrament, the consecrated wafer . . . is debased instead of elevated, and subsequently defiled." (Witchcraft; Harcourt Brace...
Between wars, he has turned out workmanlike books (Eyewitness in Abyssinia, Two Wars and More to Come, The Fruits of Fascism) on the trouble he has seen. This week, in a new book (The Education of a Correspondent; Harcourt, Brace; $4) that is part travelogue, part personal history, Reporter Matthews gives a long-winded (550 pages) recital of all the hard lessons he has learned...
...ADVENTURES OF WESLEY JACKSON (285 pp.) - William Saroyan - Harcourt, Brace...
Ever since Hiroshima, thinkers have started one chain reaction after another about The Bomb. "To clear away the hysteria," five of them published The Absolute Weapon (Harcourt Brace; $2) this week. The five (Bernard Brodie, Frederick Dunn, Arnold Wolfers, Percy Corbett, William Fox), all members of the Yale Institute of International Studies, have produced the best overall job yet on the atom's actual political implications. They make it more real by frankly presupposing that the only two powers likely to engage in an atomic-armament race are the U.S. and Russia...
DELTA WEDDING (247 pp.)-Eudora Welty-Harcourt, Brace...