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BLESSED ARE THE MEEK - Zofia Kossak...
Compared to most novels, Blessed Are the Meek is in fact much like a tapestry set against easel pictures. It is not realistic in its drawing; except in a formal sense it is not dramatic or emotional. It gets its effect as a decorative spectacle of strange times and strange places when men were more brutal and unprincipled than they are today, and at the same time more intimately aware of God. As such, it carries its own peculiar kind of conviction, especially in its engaging central figure, whom Author Kossak draws as gay, fey and disconcertingly sincere...
Until the Book-of-the-Month Club chose Blessed Are the Meek, Mme. Kossak was unknown in the U.S., though famed in Poland for her historical novels. Now that her husband, a colonel in the Polish Army, is in a German concentration camp, her whereabouts is hidden from the world, but her publishers, refugees in Manhattan, have republished in English her latest novel. Translator is Rulka Langer, Polish author of The Mermaid and the Messerschmitt (TIME...
...Publisher Silliman Evans finally pot ripsnorting mad. Sun men went out to investigate. The usually meek Sun thereupon came out with these headlines: LABOR ASSAILS TRIBUNE SMEAR and TRIBUNE LIES. . . . Said the Sun: The Tribune's campaign was a "rotten and reckless piece of work ... a giant fake" born of the "fevered delusions and prejudices" of the Tribune's "hate-filled" Publisher Robert R. McCormick...
...first three years of the war, Dr. Antonio de Oliveira Salazar, Portugal's scholarly dictator, had to maintain a correctly meek attitude in the presence of saber-rattling Germany, dagger-rattling Italy, jack-knife-rattling Spain. Now Italy is knocked out, Spain is trying to scramble out from under, Germany's saber is busy parrying the slashes of Portugal's potential allies...