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...DARING YOUNG MAN ON THE FLYING TRAPEZE-William Saroyan-Random House ($2.50). Last week a new writer appeared on the U. S. horizon. Not much bigger at first sight than a man's hand, this portent promised a change of weather to come, perhaps even a cyclone. All that had happened was a book of 26 "stories" by one William Saroyan, 26-year-old U. S.-Armenian. But readers of The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze opened their eyes at his Preface: "A writer can have ultimately, one of two styles: he can write in a manner...
...that at her greatest she could not cast it off for essential reforms. Her one move that might have stood out in the history of English theatre, her encouragement of Boucieault came to practical naught in "The London Assurance." She is really no more than a forerunner and a portent. Her history is interesting to the biographically minded and to specialists. This version of it shows up incidentally but rather well, the stodginess of the reviewers in the earlier nineteenth century, the nearly complete lack of public taste, and the banality of stagecraft Despite its deft writing...
Watchers of the U. S. skies last week reported no comet or other celestial portent. In Manhattan no showers of ticker-tape blossomed from Broadway office windows, no welcoming committee packed the steps of City Hall. No call to nation-wide thanksgiving was sounded by Nicholas Murray ("Nicholas Miraculous") Butler. No overt celebration marked the day with red. Yet many a wide-awake modern-minded citizen knew he had seen literary history pass another milestone. For last week a much-enduring traveler, world-famed but long an outcast, landed safe and sound on U. S. shores. His name was Ulysses...
...wispy sickle moon slid through the heavens over Peiping one night last week, eclipsed the planets Saturn and Venus, left them glowing balefully red. To some yellow-robed Buddhist monks conducting sombre ritual in Peiping's ancient, dilapidated Lama Temple, the eclipse was an ominous portent. They twirled their prayer-wheels uneasily, muttering the potent Buddhist charm: Om mani padme hum ("Hail to the jewel in the lotus flower"). Three nights before, some 1,000 miles to the southwest of Peiping, the great Dalai Lama, Venerable Ocean Treasure and Jewel of Majesty, had gone to his Nirvana, aged...
...compulsory thirty-hour week for industry. In the process of its legal fruition it has fortunately struck a snag and there is every reason to believe sweeping changes must and will be effected in it, for as it is now constituted, this opus of Mr. Black is of serious portent to both labor and any economic renaissance...