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DUBLIN: A PORTRAIT by V. S. Pritchett. Photographs by Evelyn Hofer. 99 pages. Harper...
...anthology, but another selection might have been less flattering to U.S. readers. For example, British writing is meagerly represented by Angus Wilson, Doris Lessing and Muriel Spark. There are no stories by two great English stylists, Graham Greene and Evelyn Waugh, by Anthony Burgess or V.S. Pritchett, or by those writers, like Coljn Maclnnes, John Wain or Kingsley Amis, who have given voice to the enhanced position of the British working class-"the people of England who have not spoken yet," as Chesterton wrote nearly two generations...
...week on Easter Sunday, home from a Mass sung (to his crusty satisfaction) in Latin, he climbed the stairs to his study and died of a heart attack. His novels survive and will continue to survive as long as there are readers who can savor what Critic V. S. Pritchett calls "the beauty of his malice...
Died. Florence Pritchett Smith, 45, wife of former U.S. Ambassador to Cuba (1957-59) and Kennedy Friend Earl E.T. Smith, onetime Powers model (at age 14), radio commentator (This Is Florence Pritchett), TV panelist (Leave It to the Girls) and, most recently, New York Journal-American food columnist; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Manhattan...
...represent that ancient enemy of all communities: the stranger. By 'being offensive' I mean that I travel, therefore I offend." says British Critic V. S. Pritchett in his introduction to this elegantly tailored travel piece. But his offensive eye is piercing. In Madrid, the light has "the radiance of enamel: in the hot months it is pure fire, refined to the incandescence of a furnace, and it is like the gleam of armour in the cold winter." He is fascinated by the Turks' capacity for almost trancelike relaxation. "No one," he says, "sits quite so relaxedlly, expertly...