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TAKE A GIRL LIKE You, by Kingsley Amis (320 pp.; Harcourt, Brace; $3.95), recalls that before novelists ruined a good dodge by inventing realism, a writer could blather pleasantly for three volumes on nothing more substantial than "She shouldn't, but will she?" Now everyone assumes that she will, but should she? The question is of grave concern to young women, their parents, psychiatrists and friends, but it is not a very good theme for an entire novel. A snickering approach inevitably blasphemes against Freud, and a serious treatment defames Boccaccio. In this somewhat disappointing book, Kingsley (Lucky...
DECISION AT DELPHI, by Helen MacInnes (434 pp.; Harcourt, Brace; $4.95), is a reasonably diverting romance that is not as taut as it should be because its tale of dark doings in Greece and Sicily is interleaved with too much travel gush. The author's proposition is that a band of left-of-Moscow terrorists in present-day Greece plans to set the Balkans afire by assassinating Marshal Tito. The wandering innocent who runs afoul of and eventually vanquishes these unpleasant plotters is an American architect named Strang. His wily adversary is a monster of plumbless evil who calls...
MARC CHAGALL DRAWINGS FOR THE BIBLE (Harcourt, Brace; $30), is a continuation of the artist's Biblical poem-without-words on which he has been engaged for more than 30 years. These drawings and lithographs have a power firmly rooted in a kind of sophisticated innocence. Marc Chagall takes the Old Testament literally, so that his Jewish inspiration seems sometimes to have been handed over to an unreconstructed Fundamentalist for execution. These powerful drawings are sensuous (Ruth in the Fields looks like a belly dancer) and sometimes terrible (Joel Kills Sisera), but always steeped in a mythical vision that...
...EYES OF THE PROUD, by Mercedes Salisachs (302 pp.; Harcourt, Brace; $3.95), shows clearly that the umbrous streak in the Spanish character that accounts for the popularity of the corrida has had its effect on the nation's literature. The result is that Spain's fictional heroines suffer at least as much wear and tear as her fighting bulls. When the reader meets pretty, pregnant, unmarried Eulalia trudging toward the Catalan fishing village that cast her out months before, the outcome of Author Salisachs' novel is not hard to predict. Sure enough, 300 pages later the tarnished...
...WORLDS OF CHIPPY PATTERSON (31 I pp.)-Arfhur H. Lewis-Harcourt, Brace...