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...portrait of Felix is surely one of the subtlest, wittiest and kindliest of a civil servant in a long time, and the story of his reluctant, harassed but courageous progress through the murderous fiddle-de-dee of the year 406 is told without a word out of place. As an extra dividend, the book is clearly intended for reading as an oblique comment on the British character, and especially on the modern British bureaucracy. Author Duggan seems to suggest that, given a bowler and bumbershoot to go with his tidy, official face, Felix might patter along Downing Street without winning...
...kindliest tale, Yam Gruel, Akutagawa turns philosopher. A middle-aged samurai lives only for his annual sip of yam gruel, his favorite delicacy. When he finally gets a chance to gorge himself, the mere idea satiates him. ("Aman sometimes devotes his life to a desire which he is not sure will ever be fulfilled. Those who laugh at this folly are, after all, no more than mere spectators of life...
Addams, whom Publisher Bennett Cerf describes as "the gentlest and the kindliest old schizophrene," and for whose work Boris Karloff (who contributes a foreword) has a "whole-souled admiration," is not preoccupied only with married life. From the specialized madnesses of the bedroom and boudoir it is only a stroke of the Addams' hand to universal madness. Drawn and Quartered includes his drawings of and that haunting simile of the mind's disintegration: ski tracks divided by a large tree...
...expatriate a few years ago when he met the keeper of the Buenos Aires morgue, Dr. Juan B. Bafico. Chiapasco needed money, a chance to work; above all, he longed for a place where he could work at his sculpting. Dr. Bafico was a kindly man, one of the kindliest who ever kept a morgue. So Dr. Bafico managed to shell out enough to keep Sculptor Chia pasco alive, and gave him a studio in the basement...
Novelist Tarkington, one of the kindliest and most helpful writers in the busi ness, soothed and encouraged Suppliant Roberts. Trouble was, he said, that he had the makings of two fine novels, maybe even three or four. Let Roberts write the story of the Quebec expedition first...