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...moralist I, but I shiver at the apparent absence of basic human decency displayed by so many G.I.s. Many a sane American family would recoil in horror if they knew how "Our Boys" conduct themselves, with such complete callousness in human relationships, over here. The few of us who try to behave like normal human beings to friend and ex-foe alike are told time & again, "But you can't be an American-they treat us as if we were dogs or slaves...
...BATTLE WITHIN-Philip Gibbs-Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). Moralist Gibbs slickly manipulates the fortunes of the Haddon family to show how Britain faces up to war. As Dr. Haddon goes on his troubled rounds, his lady frets over their son Peter, in love with a friend's wife. Daughter Pearl is forced to choose between a German flyer and a nice American sergeant. Author Gibbs deftly solves the problems, or sends insoluble characters off to heroic death...
Upton Sinclair, 65, vegetarian, moralist, Socialist, muckraker, politician, agnostic, Californian, abstainer, feminist, movie producer, violinist, physical culturist, antiFascist, antiCommunist; friend of Jack London, Theodore Roosevelt and Albert Einstein; one of the most prolific U.S. authors (67 books, 500 pamphlets); prohibitionist son of a bibulous father and twice-married critic of American marital habits, last week gave book-length vent to his latest enthusiasm: Franklin Roosevelt...
...working out of Harry's little plan provides some nice edge-of-the-seat suspense, and it has some nice sardonic consequences. The trouble is that there are too many consequences. For Playwright Job is overconcerned, more as a wry joker than as a moralist, with showing that getting away with murder can be even worse than not getting away with it; and he continues to make the point long after both Harry and the audience have caught...
...least in part from the lack of another faculty: the faculty which theologians still call charity. Nowhere, in the whole of the volume, does any character act out of genuine kindness, or even out of those uneasy spurts of selfless confusion which, in actual living, so complicate the moralist's task...