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...went to sea and found no romance in it. His history and temperament have preserved him from the British novelist's preoccupation with class and the detail of social life. He writes with no special idiom or accent about the human condition. Hanley has been obsessed by his purblind Furys for a quarter of a century. (This volume is the fifth installment of their saga, the third to be published in the U.S.) Those who treasure the art of fiction above entertainment will read An End and a Beginning with the respect and attention given to a somber passage...
Folks who have wondered how neutral a neutralist can get got an ultimate answer from India's Jawaharlal Nehru. In a fantastic bit of purblind observation, the Great Neutral assured a worried world: "People who talk about Communist revolutions are-if I may say so-out of date. So-called international Communism does not really exist today...
Storm Center (Columbia) makes reading seem nearly as risky a habit as dope. Bette Davis, a peppery, small-town librarian, moves like Lady Bountiful among the worshipful peasants in her reading room, opening their purblind eyes to the treasure trove on the shelves around them. One book among the thousands, however, is a subversive tome entitled The Communist Dream. Bette never lets it go into circulation without warning the borrower of its deleterious effects, but she is disturbed when the city council tells her to put it in the ashcan. "What," wonders Bette, "would Thomas Jefferson say to a request...
...local Zulu chieftains were not so purblind. Fearing Tikoloshe might still be on hand, they asked permission to stand by and watch when Msomi was hanged. Permission was granted...
...hour, the minute, almost the very second when it began to rise again, a rise that was to lead without serious check to the Great Disgorging of mid-March 1952. President Theodore Roosevelt, who had been annoyed for some time at what he called "the dull, purblind folly of the very rich men," made a speech on April 14, 1906, at the cornerstone laying of the new House Office Building. Congressman Champ Clark, long the Democratic House leader, gave this account of the historic occasion: "The President made a flamboyant Fourth of July speech for ten minutes, an uplift speech...