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Throughout the Balkans, the combined impact of radio, press handouts and libraries have made OIC a real threat to the Russian propaganda monopoly-and once caused Marshal Tito to close the U.S. libraries in Belgrade. Italy hungers for Americana, despite the confusion it feels after reading Steinbeck, Hemingway, Dos Passes and Faulkner in the libraries, and then seeing Hollywood's idea of Americana on the screen. India's press has changed much of its hostile tone under State Department persuasion, and in Cairo a Russian press bulletin warned against the spread of the U.S. cultural offensive because...
...might be filing his teeth down as it issues from his spigot mouth. And his face ("the sharpest knife," says Ludwig Bemelmans, "I have ever seen") is rather like a very large red pear that the ants have been at. Fred Allen has other gifts as well. John Steinbeck considers him "unquestionably the best humorist of our time ... a brilliant critic of manners and morals." Jack Benny, his private friend and public enemy, calls him "the best wit, the best extemporaneous comedian I know." Edgar Bergen, a very thoughtful fellow among professional comics, dogmatically says that Fred is "the greatest...
...criticism in the Advocate's first issue is restricted to two recent American novels. Robert Crichton's review of "Under the Volcano" is sharp and convincing; he understands the shortcomings of the book and knows how to write about them. Austryn Wainhouse, reviewing Steinbeck's latest, writes well, but is hampered rather than helped by the superfluous toels of the professional reviewer...
...simple-mindedness of the story is saved once in a while by Steinbeck's incidental touches. His chapters on Alice's solitary jag and on Camille's tired parrying of Louie, a diffident but brutal tinhorn Don Juan, are clever little stories in themselves. He writes with delicacy of the blundering stratagems and satisfactions of an adolescent mechanic called Pimples. But in theme and design the novel is a disappointing piece of second-rate, back-to-the-bulls fiction. Moreover, Steinbeck writes carelessly. Mrs. Pritchard has never known a day's pain on page...
...washed-out legend, "Repent." Mildred gives herself satisfactorily to Juan in a barn and Pritchard, repulsed by Camille, reverts to the Pleistocene by outraging his wife in a cave. What the symbolism of repentance has to do with the characters is not made clear. But readers aware of Steinbeck's great reputation and considerable gifts will feel that he has cause to repent as a novelist...