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...days in Hollywood, when a girl fell in love with the boy next door, the kids got married and lived happily ever after. In this new French film, based on a story by Françoise Sagan, the girl (Jean Seberg) is a spoiled NATO tomato, the boy (Christian Marquand) is a kept man, and they would obviously rather have a ball than a wedding...
Presbyopia Solemnizations. Midcult authors, writes Macdonald, exploit the discoveries of avant-garde authors. Thus, their works have an apparent profundity when they are only pretentious. Macdonald's favorite Midcult writers include Pearl Buck, John Steinbeck, JP. Marquand, Archibald MacLeish, and even Ernest Hemingway, or at least much of his writing. His prize examples of Midcult are James Gould Cozzens' novel By Love Possessed, with its convoluted prose and jawbreaking Latinisms like "solemnization" and "presbyopic," and Thornton Wilder's Our Town, with its fuzzy philosophizing: "There's something way down deep that's eternal about every...
...Marquand. Isak Dinesen, Rebecca West...
...sizzling portrait of the big-town big shot caught in the rat race and insisting he loves it. Joseph Kostolefsky, in the same magazine, refashions arty cliché with a lethal satire called An All-Purpose Serious Sensitive Prize-Winning Story. In Contact, John Phillips, son of J. P. Marquand, writes a mordant story of an ex-G.I. and his wife, who tour the Southern France where he once fought...
Other literary sons-John Phillips Marquand, Nathaniel Benchley, Klaus Mann -have tried with indifferent success to write like Dad. Auberon Waugh conies closer than any of them to pulling it off: at first glance, The Foxglove Saga could pass for a sequel to Decline and Fall. Like Evelyn's first novel, The Saga opens in an English boys' school and is a picaresque, loosely jointed account of several old school chums as they lurch through a succession of army camps, prisons, hospitals and asylums. The characters are often almost the same as in Decline and Fall...