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Night and Silence Who Is Here?, by Pamela Hansford Johnson. A charming, lazy British scholar arrives for a sabbatical year at a well-endowed New England college and discovers that it offers just the sinecure he has been looking for. An acid satire on the university-foundation circuit, written by the wife of Britain's Author-Scientist C. P. Snow, who was a visiting fellow at Connecticut's Wesleyan College...
NIGHT AND SILENCE WHO IS HERE? by Pamela Hansford Johnson. 246 pages. Scribner...
...addled eggheads. As such, it is the latest member of the poison ivy league founded by Mary McCarthy (Groves of Academe), Vladimir Nabokov (Pnin) and Randall Jarrell (Pictures from an Institution). It may or may not be patterned on Wesleyan University's Institute of Advanced Studies, where Novelist Pamela Hansford Johnson spent some time with her husband Sir Charles Snow as visiting British fellows...
...Pamela Harris' charming portrayal of Miss Z which gave the production its lively quality. Her superb ear for dialect and speech rhythm, the expert manner in which she used her full vocal range, and the lovely lilt of her voice as she ended her statements with "mightn't I?" or "wouldn't it?" helped her to bring the character to life with remarkable naturalness. The sparkle of her eyes as she spoke and the adroitness with which she changed facial expressions and movements created humor in the domineering character of Miss Z. Subsequently, it became perfectly understandable to the audience...
...most decorative (as well as one of our few feminine stringers) is Pamela Sanders, who, to use the highest accolade in Southeast Asia, is "Numbah One," in Laos as well as Viet Nam, Cambodia and Thailand, to pilots and mechanics of Huey helicopters and Air Force bombers. She is a much respected friend of local politicians, international truce inspectors as well as G.I.s, has taken part in countless dangerous missions in the past year. Recently, spending five days at Neutralist General Kong Le's headquarters in the Plain of Jars, she was enlisted to teach English to members...