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...There's not much in it,' I replied." The "I" of the dialogue is Lewis Eliot, a middle-aging, upper-echelon British bureaucrat and the grimace-and-bear-it hero of this sixth of Author Snow's projected ten-volume Forsyte-ish saga. C. P. (for Charles Percy) Snow, 50, is a latter-day Galsworthy, precise, ruminative, articulate, but decorously genteel to the point of inaudibility. Critics who for more than a decade have touted him as a new Stendhal are simply chasing the wrong literary genealogy. In the Snow-Galsworthy vision, the middle class can have...
Dulles explained, in effect, that by taking a position of moderation the U.S. was restraining "some people who counseled immediate forcible action," i.e., the Brit ish and the French. On Dulles' urging, the U.S., Britain and France had agreed instead to convene a 24-nation conference of nations principally affected by the canal seizure (including Russia and Egypt, excluding Israel) to negotiate what he carefully termed "an adequate and dependable international administration of the canal on terms which would respect, and generously respect, all the legitimate rights of Egypt." But what if Nasser chose not to heed the moral...
...conscience of his generation," British Critic V. S. Pritchett called Brit ish Novelist George Orwell (who died in 1950). Orwell was a maverick radical who attacked his old friends of the left with as much ferocity as new, would-be friends of the right. In the U.S., he is best known for Animal Farm, the best anti-Communist satire yet written, and that nightmare about Big Brother, Nineteen Eighty-Four. Keep the Aspidistra Flying-which appeared in England in 1936 but has never before been published in the U.S., is a sharply satirical attack on the left-wing intellectuals...
...well the old man learned that old man's art. It is a gay goodbye-as gay as Mann could ever get. And yet his last words will also provoke serious interpretation. Felix Krull is a picaresque novel, and it stands, looking sometimes a little lump ish, in the raffish succession of The Golden Ass to Don Quixote to A Sentimental Journey to Lafcadio's Adventures to (sob!) L'il Abner itself. The book's first fragment (54 pages) was published more than 30 years ago-inspired by the impassioned morbidities of Dostoevsky's Notes...
...most cases, concentration of production "appears to be accompanied by keen competition." In a changing and uncertain world, "the only safe thing to do i to study consumer tastes and trends, to f ish research, and to strive vigorously to grew." Mere size alone is no indication of how rapidly a company will grow. Between 1935 and 1953, for example, the giant U.S. Steel Corp. increased sales 397%, but smaller Bethlehem Steel grew 980%, and Jones & Laughlin 880%. In rubber, General Tire grew 1,225%, Firestone 750%, while the two biggest companies, Goodrich and U.S. Rubber, increased far less. "Certainly...