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...writing is bright, sometimes biting and provocative. Gore Vidal found John Hersey's Here to Stay "not stimulant, but barbiturate"; Dwight Macdonald wished aloud that Arthur Schlesinger "had never gotten involved with high politics." The Review ignored only what it considered trivial "except occasionally to reduce a temporarily inflated reputation." Among the reputations it sought to deflate: John Updike's The Centaur ("a poor novel irritatingly marred by good features"); J. D. Salinger's Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters (he "deals with the emotions and problems of adolescence, and it is no great slight...
...U.S.S. Bainbridge was steaming up the Yangtze River in 1912 when Commodore Mark Hersey got a desperate message to hurry below. He found a crewman with his fist in a hole in the side of the ship-holding back the Yangtze's waters. While scraping paint, the sailor had punched a hole clear through the tinny sides of America's first destroyer. Recalls Hersey: ''We stuffed a potato in the hole, covered it with concrete and prayed...
Busch uses the same narrative style adopted by John Hersey in Hiroshima: he follows one man or a family through their ordeal. But Two Minutes to Noon has little of the quiet compassion that made Hersey's book so compelling. In fact, from time to time Busch seems to be studying ants struggling in a bottle. He describes the plight of the Japanese crowding onto the same bridge from opposite sides of the river as "an interesting tactical development." Many who sought refuge on the bridge died there...
...autobiographical fantasy about an old writer named John Donner who returns to his home town in Pennsylvania, won the National Book Award, defeating such competition as John Updike's Rabbit, Run, John Hersey's The Child Buyer, and Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird. The present novel is a sequel to Kronos. The fantasy is gone. It is a straightforward account of the life of John Donner's fa ther, a country preacher...
Princeton will bring to Watson Rink tonight one of the best first lines in the League--John Cook, Jim Hyland, and Dave Hersey. Captain Austin Sullivan and Brit Mockridge are two able defensemen. But the Tigers lack adequate second-line support. In the goal, Bill Hill has been very good at times...