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...offers here two superb stories of despair that prove it. One, The Frozen Fields, shows how a father's hostility slowly corrodes the brain of a small boy. The other, Tapia-ma, follows an American photographer to the end of his skid. It is a masterwork on the psychology of the dropout, an exemplary model of existentialism in the service of fiction. Utterly bored, the photographer drifts through Latin America and slips into drunkenness at a sinister plantation bar. Unconsciously, he falls victim to conspiracy, accident, destruction. "What is freedom in the last analysis," he says to himself, "other...
Working from scale drawings and with the aid of the scaffolder, the artist finished his masterwork in just 2½ days. The result: a 50-ft. by 60-ft. bucolic semiabstract that shows 36-ft.-high green grass growing, a blue sky, a white cloud and a red and yellow towerlike structure. There is also an arrow pointing topside-in case anyone needs to know which...
...fifth and latest novel, called a "masterwork" by his publishers, is too big to ignore. Publicity assures a healthy increase of his fortunes (he earned more than $2,000,000 from the 6,500,000 copies that his first four books sold), but neither ballyhoo nor sales can refute the conclusion that Jones is a one-novel writer. His first book, From Here to Eternity (1951), at least projected a brutally candid image of the professional soldier between wars. Jones wrote it at white wrath out of his own experience in the peacetime army in Hawaii. The wrath is gone...
...HOMECOMING. It is distinctly unlikely that Broadway will see a play surpassing this Harold Pinter masterwork during the current season. The mesmeric drama is innately primitive, Oedipal, conjugal, and its mythic war between the sexes ends as that war aways does: no winners, all wounded...
...SHOP ON MAIN STREET. In a small, poignant masterwork from Czechoslovakia, Nazi terror eventually poisons the friendship between a warmhearted old Jewess (Ida Kamińska) and a decent Aryan nonentity (Josef KrÓner) whose courage falters under stress...