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Playing Fields of Camelot. In this work Author White has revised and rewritten the three previous books in his Arthurian cycle and combined them with an entirely new concluding section. The saga opens with sylvan innocence in an England that is roughshod yet full of rural graces. The only thing that troubles the towhead Wart (Arthur-to-be) is the commonly accepted notion that he is a bastardly blot on the escutcheon of a country squire named Sir Ector. whose proper son Kay is an unamiable toad. Sir Ector wants both lads to acquire a good "eddication." An old "tilting...
Justice Voelker knows the law and loves it, but his writing is as limp as a watch by Dali. All vigils are "lonely," vistas are always "sylvan." time "slips by on leaden wings." Yet, despite the leaden feet of the cliches, the book does move. Author Voelker's characters come most alive in the courtroom, in the thrust and parry of cross-examination and in the springing of tactical ambushes and legal traps by opposing counsel. It is quite ordinary writing but good entertainment, and few readers will turn aside until the fate of Lieut. Frederic Manion is finally...
With Riegels' spirit hovering over them, Schlaeppi and Rieder, the top two Crmson finishers in today's cross-country meet with Columbia, succumbed to the sylvan subtleties of the Van Cortlandt course and took a wrong turn which resulted in their disqualification by Columbia officials...
...editors of Christianity and Crisis, biweekly journal of Protestant opinion, last week announced the discovery of a new religion: Naturism. "At this time of year," said the article, "in places where there are cool breezes, mountain vistas, forest glades, sylvan lakes (how easily the phrases come to mind!) or even inviting fairways, the adherents of Naturism begin to go on a spiritual spree...
...reconciliation of historical opposites, under the joint sponsorship of the count-the Bourbon-Orléans pretender-and the retiring President of the Republic, Vincent Auriol. Among the 60 neatly drawn and pleasantly colored watercolors of military life in the U.S. were Fording the River at Bull Run, a sylvan scene of a Union convoy along a quiet road, and an exciting pictorial account, called Pickets Surprised at Peck's House, of a pistol-range fight between Union cavalry and a Confederate outpost in Virginia during the winter...