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While the U.S. keeps looking around uncertainly for its misplaced national purpose, Britain last week was taking a comfortable look at its native culture. A 76-page addition to the London Times Literary Supplement examined "The British Imagination" in a score of fields, ranging from poetry to science, women to snobbery. What the critical searchlight revealed, concluded the Times editorially, was "more diversity than richness, [a] greater sense of experimentation, consolidation, detachment, compromise (all the British virtues in fact) than actual positive achievement...
Snobs & Anti-Snobs. Religion is disposed of in half a page (largely because of the "dominant English contentment with half-knowledge"), but snobbery gets, naturally, twice the space: "It is a poor thing indeed, but we have made it all our own." Postwar prosperity has done some damage to the barriers of class: "The extremes of English society are still inalienably English, but much in the middle is half American." Most of the population "is constantly engaged in trying to talk more grandly than its parents did ... It is painful to experience. It is like trying to force a left...
FIVE years ago, Russians and Eastern Europeans were varity in black Africa, and, though occasional African nationalists turned up in Moscow to study, not one Pravda Page in so mentioned the continent's name. Last week, everywhere Western diplomats turned. Communist weeds were sprouting in the freshly plowed soil of African nationhood Guinea's Sekou Toure turned to the East for aid after France responded to his demand for independence by withdrawing everything down to the Government House furniture NOW he has Czechs operating his airports, Poles running his public works and East Germans building...
These life histories are soundly written and the people they describe are interesting enough. But the book's structure is dissatisfying: the flashbacks bring John and Herta back to the present time and then simply drop them there on the last page-still sitting in grim, unhappy silence. The author promises a Shavian clash of right and left, Adam and Rib. and several times seems on the point of producing one. But he settles too easily for tepid psychologizing, of which Liere is a surfeit these days, rather than social satire, which is in short supply. What could have...
Fears of Disarmament. Captain of this legal rear guard is a militant A.B.A. past-president, Frank Holman. 74, of Seattle, author and bankroller of a 32-page pro-Connally pamphlet that is being circulated to leaders of the 99,400-member association as well as to women's clubs, veterans' groups and editors around the nation. Dismissing the proponents of repeal as "internationalists" and "world government enthusiasts," Holman argues that "the Connally Reservation is necessary to protect the U.S. against a program of supernational supervision of its citizens," imposed by alien jurists who could make up rules...