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...prose. This is lamentable because Hesse's works, many of which lie on the borderline of acceptability, will not get the careful consideration they deserve in the wake of such superficial faddism. The twenty-three Stories of Five Decades (only three of them previously available in English) will certainly lend some more weight to the arguments both for and against Hesse. And assuming that Ralph Manheim's translation is tolerably faithful, these stories might even help clarify some of the underlying problems of Hesse's writing...
Since the U.S.S.R. translates far more foreign books, mainly scientific, than the West gets from Russia, the Soviets stand to lose millions of dollars in hard currencies. Like the agreement to pay some old Lend-Lease bills, however, it is part of a general normalization of East-West relations. Beyond that, the copyright decision has political consequences as well. In Moscow last week a Communist Party official said bluntly that "the copyright law will prevent writers from smuggling out their work for publication abroad." As an example, she cited Alexander Solzhenitsyn, whose last three banned novels have been bestsellers...
Died. Guy M. Gillette, 94, former Senator from Iowa and one of President Roosevelt's most troublesome critics during the '30s and '40s; in Cherokee, Iowa. A successful Democrat in a Republican farm state, Gillette opposed Roosevelt's plans to pack the Supreme Court, extend Lend-Lease aid to European Allies and serve for more than two terms. He overcame his reputation as an isolationist by helping to draft the United Nations Charter, but despite his apparent popularity and staunch pro-farmer politics, he was defeated for a fourth Senate term...
Benny's obsession with celebrities and their commonplaces is finally inflated by the author and even charged with a kind of spurious nobility. The question -should Benny sell out?-begins as a joke, a preposterous dilemma. Then Lahr's sympathy for Benny, Lahr's eagerness to lend his characters dignity, beats away the japes, and what began as a joke ends in bloodshed and sadness...
Robbins said the Museum's policy is to lend fairly liberally. "The idea is to have people live with art, rather than having it stored away at the Fogg. If such incidents continue, however, paintings will no longer be allowed to hang in the Houses," he added...