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As an empathetic exercise, Blood on the Doves is profoundly frightening and enlightening; as a literary experiment, it is even more remarkable-a triumphant attempt to develop a surreal subject in a cubistic style. The previous novels (Victorine, Honey on the Moon) of Author Maude Hutchins, former wife of former...
The first method would have depended for conference on perfect timing. The characters would have had to establish, by pause and gesture alone, a basic emotional rhythm. The surface chatter would have served as ironical counterpoint. The blend would have caught the spirit of the play perfectly.
Viansson-Ponte is a court chronicler without being courtier. As political editor of the prestigious Le Monde, he has free access to inner government circles even though he is not a Gaullist. This position gives him a rare detachment: he is able to write knowledgeably about De Gaulle while avoiding...
"It takes two to make a marriage," the late Fred Allen once observed. "Yourself and somebody to blame it on." From this cozy connubial notion, French Director André Cayatte (Tomorrow Is My Turn) has extracted a novel cinematic idea: it takes two movies to describe a marriage-one to...
In their "mission" in civil rights and slum development, Riesman indicated. The students may be showing the university how to re-establish meaningful ties with their communities. "It is ironical that when some universities have become planetary in the sense of sending anthropologists and development experts to "Pakistan or Tanganyika...