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Expectation of Good. Sigh for a Strange Land is an intermittently successful attempt to share imaginatively what its British author. Monica Stirling, has not suffered-the life of a refugee. Resi. a confused and attractive 16-year-old, flees a country very like Hungary. With her go her schnapps-tippling, aristocratic Aunt Natasha and Natasha's long-ago lover Boris, a trainer of circus horses. The dance of liberty soon slows to the shuffle of Red Cross soup queues, even though the gallant trio refuses to indulge in the occupational pastime of unhappy refugees-back-biting the hand that...
...kindly British couple gives Resi a glimpse of possible happiness, and she resolves to explore "the strange land of love where tomorrow' is not always a frightening word." Cluttered with romantic folderol. Sigh nonetheless says something about man's inhumanity to man and fleetingly embodies the Simone Weil text it takes for its theme: "At the bottom of the heart of every human being . . . there is something that goes on indomitably expecting, in the teeth of all experience . . . that good and not evil will be done...
...rotates battalions instead of individuals, and most military men believe this is a better system than the U.S. scheme of individual rotation. Now, the division is preparing to integrate Koreans into their units, in the same fashion as the American KATUSA (they will be called KATCOMS). In the present resi-and-training phase, the division is composed of three brigades, one Canadian, one Scottish-English, one mainly Australian, and other smaller units, including a New Zealand artillery regiment. The Canadians and Anzacs are all volunteers. They are commanded by Major General Michael Montgomerie Alston-Roberts-West, who prefers...
...saying that 'the one thing that was lacking, of course, from D. H. Lawrence's novels, was the consciousness of sexual relationship, the male and female element in life.'" Hope-tipping may be a formula man, and the humor which made him may be limited, but he has the resi spark of original humor. So does "Lifemanship...
Among venerable establishments like the Three Hussars, the Crooked Lantern and Aunt Resi's, Broadwayish nightclubs sprouted. Racily named Esquire, Zebra and Heidebo, they offered in neat, cultural synthesis U.S.-style jazz and Viennese-style wine (instead of hard liquor...