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...NEVER HAPPEN (182 pp.)-V. S. Pritchett-Reynal & Hitchcock...
...habit of judging other men's books seems to dry up a critic's ability to write effective fiction of his own. But not in Victor Sawdon Pritchett's case. The 14 stories in It May Never Happen are proof that a first-rate critic may also become a fine storyteller. Pritchett's reviews in London's liberal New Statesman and Nation are highbrow; they are also incisive and discriminating. Pritchett considers his story writing "an endless chewing of the cud of experience, an effort to digest; and also a desire to fill...
...goggling egos in It May Never Happen are mostly those of ordinary Britons: clerks, housewives, tradesmen, or casuals who drift around the periphery of fixed society. Pritchett furnishes the wastelands of their minds with the unspoken impulses, the suppressed, half-formed resentments, suspicions and despairs that shape their personalities and behavior. Outwardly nothing much happens to these people. The reader who wants his excitement laid on with a trowel, characters forced toward some unexpected twist-ending by an inventive author, will find them unrewarding. As in the stories of Virginia Woolf and Elizabeth Bowen, the excitement in these stories grows...
...paying well, Mrs. Garrett had got some good names (Henry Steele Commager, Jessamyn West, Frederic Prokosch, V. S. Pritchett, Sean O'Faolain) to write for Tomorrow. She kept her psychic secrets pretty well out of it. People who wanted to know what her aim was got a steady, blue-green stare and a soft answer: "I have no bone to bury, and no ax to grind. But I have a policy: I believe in the humanities, and in common decency...
Totting up his annual score, University of Chicago's Professor C. Herman Pritchett found that in the 1943-44 term at least one justice had dissented in 58% of the cases-a new record. (Previous high: 44% in 1942-43; in most of the Court's history up to 1937 the dissents never averaged higher than...