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Folk music strikes a responsive chord in people because it reflects life in basic human terms and with powerful, poetic truth. Even its war songs, both anti-war and battle sagas, are expressed in poignant, personal terms.
Tamable Shrew. With the ruefulness implicit in her title, but also with honesty and a bitchy bonhomie that seldom adorn such Sunset sagas, Bette Davis, now 54, pictures herself as Mother Goddam, a tamable shrew who never found her Petruchio. Her four marriages suffered inevitably from income-patibility. In 1946...
The characters of Salinger's most astonishing legend belong to a gaudy and eccentric family named Glass. The chronicle of the clan's fortunes is far from finished (the Glasses have so far made their appearance only in Franny, Zooey, and five other stories), but it is already one of...
Proper & English. An American by residence, Miss Hewitt came to dote on Wild West sagas, Civil War exploits. But by citizenship and temperament she remained forever England. She drank Scotch whisky, disguised modesty with a tart tongue, concealed generosity by demanding high standards. She was also properly foresighted. Anticipating her...
Barracuda Waters. Not all of Dos Passos' sad sagas involve labor unions. Jasper Milliron is a driving venture capitalist who hopes to give an old-line baking-powder company a technological transfusion. Instead he sees his dream bleed to death in the barracuda waters of corporate executive suites. "Man...