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...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...
...THUNDER - Frederic Prokosch - Harper ($2.50). Once again the author of The Conspirators silkily mixes mysticism and melodrama in an allegorical account of an underground agent's mission. In search of the spiritual dry rot besetting occupied France, the agent, Jean-Nicolas Martin, finds meaning for his own life in the love of a darkly beautiful Italian miss...
...Conspirators (Warner), fairly bristling with plot, compounds intrigue and counter-intrigue to the point where it shows a Nazi posing as an Ally posing as a Nazi. Readers of Frederic Prokosch's moody, almost plotless novel will scarcely recognize the adaptation...
Five of the Gestapo's hostages were together in one cell. Hostage Prokosch, a famous actor, "confessed" to the "murder" because a heroic exit would let him die believing that he was a better man than his wife's lover, Hostage Lobkowitz. Hostage Preissinger, who wanted to save his skin, tried to pin the murder on Hostage Janoshik, stalwart member of the Underground movement. Dr. Wallerstein, psychoanalyst and Hostage No. 5, asked only that he be allowed to record the psychological behavior of his four doomed mates, so that his memory would live as the author...
...surprising reaction to non-artistic calamity. Combining his usual technical artistry with a radical shift to significant subject matter, this poem must rank among Stevens' most important and best. A delightfully impudent bit of subtle artistry, "The Wood Weasel," has been contributed by Marianne Moore, while Conrad Aiken, Frederic Prokosch, and John Brinnin are represented by pieces which, though not their best work, will add to this issue's appeal...