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British Critics V. S. Pritchett and C. Day Lewis made no mistake when they gave Miss Barker the Maugham Award. Nor did the London Daily Mail's Peter Quennell, when he praised her for writing of people "she seems to know and feel for -from the soles of their erring feet to the crowns of their shining heads...
...dictatorship. Malcolm Lowry's Under the Volcano, an ambitious effort to analyze a modern type of disintegrated personality and to make it universal, failed in the second aim; but his descriptions of a Mexican setting were memorable. The finest short stories of the year were perhaps V. S. Pritchett's It May Never Happen and J. F. Powers' sketches of Catholic clergy in Prince of Darkness. Lionel Trilling's The Middle of the Journey was a thoughtful but disappointing study of New York liberal intellectuals. Saul Bellow's The Victim, for the most part...
...critics were Van Wyck Brooks's mellow The Times of Melville and Whitman; Edmund Wilson's jarringly narrow-minded Europe Without Baedeker; Lloyd Morris' genre pieces in Postscript to Yesterday. Welcome relief from the weedlike academicism that is choking American criticism were V. S. Pritchett's urbane, pleasant but acute essays on English writers in The Living Novel...
...Associated Press reported last night that Norton G. Pritchett, Director of Athletics at the University of Virginia, refused to comment on how Moravec was injured until he had seen motion pictures of the game...
...Disaster of Lawrence. A fellow critic has called Pritchett "the most humane of critics . . . not looking for perfection but for the essential life in a book." The "essential life," for Pritchett, is usually blunt and British. With such novelists as Lawrence, Wells and Conrad he is less humane. Wells, he writes, lived in a "new world of agitating chemicals, peculiar glands, and obliterating machines. . . . He did not attribute anything but an obstructive value to human personality." Conrad had a feeling for real life, but obscured it with a "dubious Romantic over-world." Lawrence's "phallic cult was a disaster...