Word: harpers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nobody sees any prospect of uniting Protestantism and Catholicism, but many a Protestant is hopeful that Protestants can and will unite. In a new book out this week, On This Rock (Harper; $1.50), Methodism's Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam writes...
ROMMEL, THE DESERT FOX (264 pp.) Desmond Young Harper...
Some of his more sobersided fellow artists deplore Marcel Vertès. They sneer at his "commercialism" (he does covers for Vogue and Harper's Bazaar, along with book illustrations, perfume ads, ballet sets, china, furniture, silk print and needlepoint designs), but can't help envying his commercial success. They scoff at his preference for pretty and elegant subjects, but have to admit, gritting their teeth, that Vertes (rhymes with bear says) draws and paints very prettily and elegantly indeed. They call him superficial, forget that such masters as Fragonard were...
DISTURBER OF THE PEACE (336 pp.)-William Manchester-Harper...
...Long Day's Dying, by Frederick Buechner, a 23-year-old disciple of Henry James. There was nothing precious about young (24) John Hawkes's The Cannibal, a sometimes powerful experimental novel that tried to capture the nightmarish quality of Germany's disintegration in defeat. The Harper Prize of $10,000 went to Debby, Max Steele's sentimental first novel about a bemused little woman with a big heart and a feeble mind. A shirt manufacturer from Iowa, Richard Bissell, wrote A Stretch on the River, a first novel about Mississippi River boatmen...