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Memed My Hawk, by Yashar Kemal An appealing first novel from Turkey tells the story of an Anatolian village lad who grows up to be a modern Robin Hood...
...cash gift," said Davis. He could "only attribute her unreasonable selfishness to the unrealistic materialism prevalent among American youth of today." When he some day asks Son Shelby to relinquish his own trust, added Davis, who knows a thing or two about materialism, he hopes the lad will show "more understanding of his responsibility to society...
...reached gun-bearing age, he served in the Gold Coast Regiment in Takoradi (Ghana), getting a good look at both British and French West Africa. The central character of his first novel, set in a British colony on the edge of independence, is Lieut. Michael Glyn, an English lad of good family and education who has no sense of vocation for his job and is emotional to the point of hysteria. This is the sort of man who has the hopeless task of working out an orderly turnover to a native government after the new country's first election...
...Delhi, Kennedy ripped off a letter recalling his own family's uprooting after his father took over the London embassy. Informed that Peter was an animal lover, the President pointed out India's "fascinating possibilities (although I gather that cobras have to be handled professionally)," encouraged the lad to think of himself as part of "a junior Peace Corps," added an intimate postscript: "I wish a little that I were going also...
...perhaps not quite so interesting. He does not smoke, drink or swear. Some people also say he does not sing, but then some people don't like the way Albert Schweitzer plays the organ. Certainly he does not act, but perhaps that is expecting too much of a lad who is only 26, and who, as he shyly confesses, was spanked by his mother (with a sewing-machine belt) until...