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...even more painless stratagem is to latch on to a mystery or thriller writer who is not yet widely known. Fleming and le Carré, of course, are old-gat. So are Britain's Len Deighton (The Ipcress File) and John Creasey (Death of an Assassin), whose books have been made into movies. Georges Simenon, the prolific French author whose Inspector Maigret has solved more than 60 book-length cases to date, has yet to win a mass following in the U.S., despite his fine ear for Gallic nuance and a geographer's eye for locale. One enterprising...
...vacuum. Somehow a teacher doesn't seem truly intelligent or particularly worth knowing until the author can maintain an objective tone and a critical stance. Of fifteen profiles, only three-Andrew Weil on Jerome Bruner, Michael O'Hare's defense of Jose Luis Sert, and Nancy Tobey on Len Gittleman--reach the third level...
FUNERAL IN BERLIN by Len Deighton. 312 pages. Pufnam...
...Eugene lonesco's one-acter, Bedlam Galore, for Two or More, "She" and "He" quarreled, and quarreled some more, while a civil war went on outside and the roof and walls caved in to illustrate lonesco's philosophy that life is absurd. Electrically powered kinetic sculpture by Len Lye and Nicolas Schoeffer moved, twisted, roared and thumped at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery. All this and more galore was part of the two-week Buffalo Festival of the Arts Today, perhaps the most all-encompassing, hip, with-it, avant-garde presentation in the U.S. to date...
...last week's renewed aerial action, a Huskie helicopter was whirring over the Gulf of Tonkin in search of Cul len when Vietnamese 1st Lieut. Nguyen Van Phu, who ditched his flaming Skyraider near the spot where the U.S. pilot went down, fired a smoke signal to attract its attention. The Hus kie, flying out of Danang, dropped to within 3 ft. of the pitching wave crests, plucked the wounded pilot out of the water and started back toward South Viet...