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Except for some excellent art work and a fine bright cover, the rest of the Advocate shades off into mediocrity. There is another long anecdote about Europe by Hona Karmel called "The Old Ignacy." Her material is rich, but she has a nasty habit of letting her writing smother it; when Miss Karmel talks about coffee, she calls it a "black fragrant fluid." Andrew Zimmer's introspective and involved story of a boy who has lost his father, "Sideways to the Sun," topples of its own length. A section of Hall's introduction to the new Advocate Anthology is straight...
...direct contrast to these two stories, Illona Karmel's "The Bracelet" is almost self-consciously denotative. It is the story of a bracelet that symbolizes the fortunes of a Russian-Jewish family. Each possessor of the bracelet is deftly and clearly depicted in a series of brief character sketches, "The Bracelet" is consistently interesting, but the story's structure precludes much emotional reaction. The most arresting character, a young woman named Barbara Bogucka, is passed over just as the reader becomes interested...
...Miss Karmel's story will be printed to a forthcoming issue of Mademoiselle. She will go to New York next week in shorten her manuscript from its present 15,000 words to the 10,000 requested by the magazine...
...Hona Karmel '51, a Polish girl in his first term at Radcliffe, is national final prize winner in Mademoiselle's undergraduate short story contest. The magazine notified Miss Karmel last Friday that her story had been chosen for the $500 prize...
When Peter Karmel crashed his airplane and lost his arm in Galicia he woke up in the dismal fairyland of his cracked brain. His head hummed like a drunken beehive, but above that noise he heard the menacing approach of a blind man's tapping stick, saw visions of a beautiful porcelain woman who comforted him. To flee the blind man he hides away in an obscure hotel in Budapest, drinks brandy by the bottle, neat. Finally his longing for the porcelain woman overcomes his terror of the blind man. He leaves the hotel to try to find...