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...anthology does not hide Belloc's often absurd fixations. But it does reveal a writer of rare genius and rarer virtues, who had a Romanic love of order, ceremony and pietas, a raging contempt for humbug, snobbism and cant, an adult gusto and a childlike faith, an unerring eye for the telling detail of a life or a landscape, and a blunt, stately, crisp and virile style...
...because our contacts with our compatriots are so abrasive, we seek more apartness and join a vast competitive struggle to be unusual. We search for rarer and more expensive symbols by which we can announce our uniqueness. But, as Slater says, this quest to be individual is increasingly futile since individualism itself is to blame, producing a strangely disquieted uniformity of symbol-consumers...
Rags discovers what some young people are wearing simply by sending photographers into the streets. Among its rarer finds: a girl with a shaved head in a bright orange gym suit, a mini-outfit made out of an old valance and a floor-length gown "made out of old curtains that I ripped off of this house from which I was evicted because I was mad at the landlady...
...sheer incoherence, from self-analysis to baths of self-pity. In the process, Miss Gallant's book bounces from high comedy to low, from pure pathos to arch New Yorkerish chatter. But neither heroine nor style ever loses the sharp wit that provides both with rare bite and rarer balance...
...thus punishing dissent, the French were following an impulse that, in some form, has seized many Western Communist parties of late. Especially in the larger ones, the hierarchy is reasserting demands for an orthodox, centralized ideology. Open criticism is rarer-and riskier-than it has been for years...