Word: pots
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Taking the same old pot from Shakespeare's rack, British Novelist Rumer Godden has cooked up a fresh batch of literature in it. As readers of her earlier novels (Black Narcissus, A Candle for St. Jude) may expect, the Godden brew is not much more than cambric tea, and though its prose has a refreshing bouquet and its flavor of idyl is cut by lemon slices of irony, the book is still a Tempest in a teapot. Author Godden gracefully recognizes the fact by calling her novel not a Tempest but A Breath...
Airflyte Theater (Thurs. 10:30 p.m., CBS). Joan Blondell in Pot O'Gold...
...Valley. Because of its cheap power supply, Alcan's prices are the world's lowest. The company's 1950 output of 378,000 tons was easily sold, and Britain has already contracted to buy nearly all the extra production the company can draw from its Quebec pot lines in the next three years. Said an Alcan official: "We're sold out unless we build some more powerhouses...
Like everything Author Wylie has written in recent years (Generation of Vipers, An Essay on Morals, Opus 21), The Disappearance has as many flaws as a pot-holed road, as many undigested scraps of thought as a Quiz Kids' program. But even the grotesqueness of the fantasy, and the gaps and snags, do not seriously detract from the book's underlying warmth of heart and crusading fervor. With the aid of a monstrous trick, Author Wylie again lays a stubby forefinger on his favorite theme-the relation of the sexes-and succeeds, at last, in discussing the matter...
...last time that Mencken spoke well of his native land. Years later he admitted that "I wouldn't swap an American bathroom for the Acropolis." But these were passing sentimentalities from the man whose avowed program was "to combat, chiefly by ridicule, American piety, stupidity, tin-pot morality, cheap chauvinism in all their forms...