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Farrell's Studs Lonigan trilogy, for all its elephantine gait and structure and its lack of narrative sense, had the freshness of its tough Chicago South Side material, observed with accuracy and set down with passion. Since then, Farrell has been dishing up the same old Irish stew without so much as adding a fresh onion. The Road Between shuttles between Chicago and the leftish intellectual world of New York in 1932. Aspiring Writer Bernard Carr, who works for an undertaker, has eloped with his employer's daughter and settled down in Manhattan to write. The Road...
Take a well-bred young English lady named Armorel Cepinnier and bind her in matrimony to Gian ("Toughie") Ardree, an Italian-born bricklayer with quick fists and a slow brain, and you can have a nice stew of social and psychological problems. Set the uplift-minded Armorel and the hairy-chested Toughie to living in one of the meanest streets of one of London's slums, and the stew is likely to become too thick to stir...
...Cousin Freddie, don't you think it's awful for Mums, seeing the last little chick fluttering away from the nest?") to the Anglo-Genoese babblings of Gian's momma ("Ayee! Serris my Gian . . . allo, mi' picciolo!"). But Elephant and Castle is still a dreary stew of tragedy, haphazardly spiced with a few onions of Cockney humor that don't always mix too well with the rest...
Within half an hour MacWilliams was winging south toward Nanking. There he waited nearly four hours for gasoline. He ate a meal of rice and meat stew scooped out of a big pot in the chow tent, and at regular intervals argued with the ground crewmen to get going on gassing. By noon he was on his way back to Suchow with another load of rice...
...five man squad will make the trip to New York. Along with starters Calhoun, Van Peborgh, and Howland reserves Tim White and Stew Bennett will be on hand in case of injuries or merely to spell the first three...