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Each book of the quartet has been weaker than the one before. But this is as much a tribute to the first volume, Justine, as a criticism of the others, for it is hard to see how the febrile excitement and verbal surprise of Justine could have been maintained. In...
The most striking international challenge of 1960 is that of emergent Africa. The old Hollywood-style image of the continent as a vast game park peopled by savages and kindly Colonial Servants must make way for a new one that will emphasize the changes of the last fifteen years; for...
These developments are all peopled by the newly prospering Negro middle class, who all seem to have one thing in common : a fever for good living. Technicians, professional men, teachers, nurses, well-paid factory workers, federal employees-they settle where the air is clean and the schools good, join the...
NOT ME, INSPECTOR, by Helen Reilly (207 pp.; Random House; $2.95), the author's 32nd published novel, is peopled with stylish, upper-middle-class Manhattanites who yearn for just those few extra thousands a year. This sort of yearning leads to murder for profit. The romantic side of the...
The earth hung in a cobalt sky like a giant circus balloon. The landscape was dotted with papier-mache roses and lilies and peopled by curly-horned horses, characters in tasseled, clownlike costumes, and a peruked barrister in trailing robes. Thus the surface of the moon appeared to the space...