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Robert Frost '01 and John P. Marquand '15 will speak this week in Adams House and Kirkland House in their first appearances under the Ford Foundation grants to the Houses...
After a lot of dull plot and duller dialogue (Brigitte: "I've got a flat." Man helping her with her bike: "I'd never have suspected"), the hero (Christian Marquand) refuses to marry the girl, so she takes his brother (Jean-Louis Trintignant) instead. She does her best to make her husband's brother jealous, and the moviegoer curious-here comes that sheet again. She wraps it around her so that the husband can see what's inside and the audience can't. But by this time, the spectator, if he happens to be grownup...
Starting with review by the editor of Atlantic's impressive past, in which the mystical names of James Russell Lowell, Bliss Perry, Ellery Sedgwick, Thomas Bailey Aldrich, and William Dean Howells figure as editors, the issue goes on to new material by past contributors. Frost, Marquand, Hemingway, Thurber, Berenson, Morison, Isak Dinesen, President Conant, Jung, Slichter, Niebuhr, Osbert and Edith Sitwell, Auden, Wilder, McGinley, R. P. Lister, and the late Max Beerbohm march with deserved pomp and circumstance through the table of contents...
...authors, however, are so novel, and in reality Slichter and Frost are reworking old themes, and doing their jobs well. Osbert Sitwell keeps up his barrage of family anecdotes; Bernard Berenson analyzes another family topic--Bernard Berenson; Beerbohm revives the Victorians; and Marquand traces his genealogy and that of New England. All is as it was--fluent, powerful in spots, and not disturbing...
With the exception of John P. Marquand and a handful of others, novelists are prone to regard bankers as villains or vegetables. Even when the banker is a Communist, the curse is not lifted. Present case in point: the vice president of a bank in an industrial city in South Russia, Taras Tarasovich Popugaev, "a bread-salter" (i.e., great party-giver), known to friends in true tycoon style as T.T. Thus Vladimir B. Grinioff, 45, a Russian-born U.S. expert on Russian affairs, presents one of the most grotesque and ingratiating figures of this year's fiction...