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...Farce is tragedy out for a good time." So begins Stefan Kanfer's chronicle of one of the saddest, stupidest chapters of American political history -a time when the political blacklist was used in show biz in the 1940s and '50s and how that came about...
Something far more banal was also at play, however-an invincibly ignorant pride. One of the saddest of the new books is called Against Stalin and Hitler (John Day; $8.95). The author, a former Eastern Front officer named Wilfried Strik-Strikfeldt tells how the advancing Germans failed to enlist the struggling Russian Liberation Movement in their assault on Stalin's forces...
...claim these pieces as part of "feminine sensibility" simply gives them more credit than they deserve. They are, in general, mediocre work, self-indulgent, one-dimensional, or just badly written. There are a few exceptions: Sadie Stern's long first-person story called "The Saddest Young Woman" is stylistically promising if immature. Cynthia MacDonald's "Another Attempt at the Trick" is a deft and chatty poem symbolizing art as a fantastic tight-rope walk. The visuals are of a quality that tends to embarrass the verbals: there is an excellent photo essay on Hell's Angels by Barbara Boatner...
Well, all teams that were involved in that skirmish in January have traveled a "fur piece" (as the Down East saying goes) since then. And an examination of the record might suggest that Harvard has made the longest--and saddest--journey...
...Teddy who gets the saddest and truest line. "We spend all our time trying to keep cheerful," he confesses during a break in the antics. Holding their freakish reality at bay is, nevertheless, a full-time job that draws heavily on the twins' seemingly endless store of hope. Perhaps its source may be found somewhere in that laundry bag, humming in D minor, under the bust of Beethoven. "R.Z. Sheppard