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MARIA LIGHT (181 pp.)-Lester Goran -Houghton Mifflin...
...Lester Goran writes about the widow Light, gossiping as if he were sitting on a sidewalk bench, killing time on a summer night. As in his fine first novel. The Paratrooper of Mechanic Avenue, Goran recreates slumside Pittsburgh with superbly detailed tessellations of anecdote. An itchy slut of a woman up on the third floor sings Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree with her soldier friends and kicks them all out just before her husband gets back from his war-worker job at midnight. Mrs. Bagley from the other side of the garbage court passes the word that...
...that, Maria Light remains a faceless and not fully realized heroine in an otherwise excellent novel. She does not breathe the way the city breathes. Already a good novelist, Lester Goran will become an important one when he can draw his major figure as well as he sketches the small ones: "Archie came in the door with his habitual stoop although the door opening was well above his head." he writes of one quickly come-and-gone man in this book. "He had that shy manner that always indicated that what he was going to say was not worth hearing...
...done now?'" In a dinner toast, the President observed: "I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered together at the White House-with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone." Canada's Liberal Party leader, Lester Pearson, who had been invited to the President's bedroom for a talk while Kennedy dressed for dinner, had a less graceful and less expansive view...
...This means," thundered Prime Minister John Diefenbaker. trying to make the best of it. "increased exports, increased jobs and more prosperity for all Canada." Liberal Leader Lester Pearson, trying to make the worst of it. labeled it "a confession of the complete failure of the government's economic policy.'' Certainly the devaluation seemed to strike at Canadians' instinctive pride in their dollar, arming Pearson in his campaign charge that Canada's international prestige has declined under five years of Tory management...