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Since the initial review of Nabokov's Lolita [Sept. 1], TIME has scarcely missed an issue without a reference to that highly publicized parcel of pornography. The association proposed in your Dec. 29 Press section between comic-strip characters Popsie and Poteet and Nabokov's nymphet is apt, but where next will she appear? In National Affairs...
TIME'S review of The Inn of the Sixth Happiness [Dec. 22] was more jejune than usual. The sophomore-with-typewriter who pecked out this tirade quite evidently cannot distinguish between sentiment and sentimentality. The movie has more "treacle [than] the Great Boston Molasses Flood." Why not park your lad next to his cliché factory and pray for a small explosion...
...Reds' reliance on violence to that of the fascists. Lately, Nehru has found himself under attack from no less a Red than Pavel Yudin, Soviet Ambassador to Red China and one of the Soviet Communist Party's leading theoreticians. In the December issue of the World Marxist Review (published in Prague), Yudin accuses Nehru of distorting Communism's meaning and discrediting "the real and living socialism" that the Reds are building in China and Europe. Nehru's police, he said, had committed "collective murders" in putting down mob violence...
...silver jubilee issue of Daily Variety (436 pp.). Some of them were beginning to wonder if the publicity was worth the price. Purred Actress Faye Emerson: "Whenever I open in anything, the very next day a woman calls from Variety and says. 'Did you see our nice review? Oh, by the way, we have a special edition coming up. Wouldn't you like to take an ad?' Usually I can think of ways I'd much rather spend my money. As a matter of fact, I don't read Variety...
Alphabetical Nostrums. Middle-aged readers may feel a touch of the old nostalgia as the AAA, TVA, NRA and all the other alphabetical nostrums pass in review. As Schlesinger moves from agency to agency, he frequently comes through with accurate and telling thumbnail sketches of the crowd around F.D.R. There is Henry Wallace ("At a certain point, his mind seemed almost to break through a sonic barrier . . . into rhapsodic mysticism"), who could speculate whether the reverse side of the U.S. Great Seal, with its all-seeing eye. did not prefigure the Second Coming of the Messiah. There is erratic, hard...