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...drop them there on the last page-still sitting in grim, unhappy silence. The author promises a Shavian clash of right and left, Adam and Rib. and several times seems on the point of producing one. But he settles too easily for tepid psychologizing, of which Liere is a surfeit these days, rather than social satire, which is in short supply. What could have been a clever novel is. as it turns out. merely clever notes...
...Lady Godiva had cantered through Soho last week, she would have been too late. A stripper on horseback has already been signed to work London's "Naughty Mile." The district heaves with a surfeit of female flesh. After years of popularity abroad, the English nude has at last come into her own at home...
Dirty Hands. Partly because of the army censorship in Algiers, partly out of a surfeit of crises, plain Frenchmen did not at first recognize the deadliness of the situation. Only gradually did it become clear that not just a few barricades had to be taken, but half of Algiers, half of Constantine. Not until the fourth day of the uprising did French newspaper readers learn that the insurgents had freed fellow insurgents from jail, permitted shops to be opened or ordered them to close, shut down Algiers municipal services and were in control of the city with the army...
...Surfeit. In a sparkling introduction, full of the kind of critical prodigality of ideas rare in the U.S., Ireland's Arland Ussher sees in Dangerfield a dangerous symptom. Says Ussher: "[Donleavy's] Fool-Rogue represents, fairly enough, the present mood of the world . . . The World after the Great Flood, a world to which the Great Peace and the two Wars, Christianity and Diabolism, have done their blessedest and damndest...
...Last Illusion. Over Radio Free Berlin he explained: "I postponed this decision for years and years in the desperate hope that the surfeit of rudeness, stupidity, violence and injustice, the flooding lies and suppression of spiritual freedom were only convulsions of a transitional period." But "the Hungarian tragedy-so heart-sickening and nerve-rending, particularly for old Communists," had destroyed "the last hope, the last illusion. While we believed we were fighting for freedom and right and against fascist barbarism, fascism and barbarism have risen again behind us, in word and deed and spirit...