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This is the setting that Jean Malaquais has chosen for his huge and exciting novel about "shamed and sunken France." World Without Visa is a novel on the grand scale, packed with enough action to fill a dozen less ambitious books, bursting with dramatic and melodramatic climaxes, written and overwritten from a gnawing sense of social urgency - a desperate, ear-splitting wail of grief at what human life has become in the 20th Century. Niggling critics will find many faults in it, and the faults are there; but it is nonetheless a book that communicates, as no other...
...appointing 51-year-old Poet Blanco, Venezuela's Novelist-President Rómulo Gallegos knew that he had laid his hand on a man who had the confidence of Venezuela's common people. Blanco, an unassuming little man with sunken cheeks and burning eyes, is their country's foremost poet and orator. The fact that he presided last week over the Foreign Office in the Casa Amarilla in Caracas was a sort of personal triumph for them...
...City. In Trieste, Bruno Nidoldi was arrested for selling some out-of-towners a sunken battleship...
...tale with new ideas and idioms. Now the French poet-moviemaker, Jean Cocteau, has handsomely reset the legend in modern dress. His title, The Eternal Return, is the term Nietzsche gave to the mournfully romantic doctrine of endless historical repetition. The Nietzschean note tolls through the film like a sunken bell...
...Alices were breaking their arms. Washington's famed, acerb hostess, "Princess Alice" Roosevelt Longworth, 63, lost her footing in a butcher shop, landed hard, broke her left arm in two places and sprained her ankle. Blonde Cinemactress Alice Faye, 32, fell into a sunken living room at a Los Angeles party and broke her right...