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From Miss Foley's anthology, he could argue that the U.S. is psyche-deep in insecurity, addicted to the subtle analysis of private anguish, decadent in social morality, and continually worried about the problem of racial minorities. From the Satevepost collection, he would get a picture of a U.S. incredibly complacent about its national virtues, convinced that romance always ends with a kiss of betrothal, and devoted to the notion that everything always turns out right...
Quack Monologue. The current Satevepost collection (No. 5 in a series that has been appearing since 1946) lacks the work of such distinguished old-time Post regulars as John P. Marquand, Guy Gilpatric and Clarence Budington Kelland. But its breezy, lightweight stories are done by expert literary carpenters, e.g., Gerald Kersh and Steve McNeil, who know the formula perfectly. Moreover, the collection makes no claim to being the best literature of this or any other year...
...also a photographically sharp scene of mob violence, Herrin Massacre, which described in bloody detail the murder of a gang of strikebreakers by coal miners at Herrin, Ill. in 1922. Like many of Cadmus' best works, Herrin was storytelling art, as carefully staged and realistically painted as a Satevepost cover. What saved it from banality was the unpleasantness of the subject and the academic brilliance of Cadmus' draftsmanship...
...that the guards, who had of course followed him, would wait at the shore. But he had underestimated "the Oriental concept .of hospitality" which he encountered in Russia. Related Smith last week in My Three Years in Moscow, which is running serially in the New York Times and the Satevepost...
...Dust) are among the best in 20th Century U.S. fiction; others, as might be expected from a man producing at Faulkner's rate, are inferior and slapdash. In the latter group is Knight's Gambit, a collection of six stories (a couple of them written for the Satevepost) more or less conforming to detective-story formulas...