Word: taling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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DARK MADONNA-Richard Summers- Caxton Printers ($2.50). Well-told, realistic tale of a southwest "Little Mexico," revealing further weakness in such sentimentalized stories as John Steinbeck's Tortilla Flat...
...first novel, partly answers his question. The East Side Jews he writes about with such authority are almost enough to tie an old-fashioned U. S. stomach into Nazi knots. Manhattanites who brush elbows every day with loud, cheap slickers like Author Weidman's hero, who tells the tale himself, may find the story much too true to be entertaining. Others will give it a good hand for a smart piece of work smartly done...
...from the mental agonies which he was forced to suffer. His experience as an apprentice to two manufacturers, his final attempt to escape from everything when he himself was his own worst enemy, and his final realization that life after all held some beauty for him make a tale so touching in its sincerity and so gripping in its tragedy that the reader lives over the experiences with the author...
Captains Courageous, a dry-docked, refitted version of Rudyard Kipling's brassbound tale, relates two stories. One is Harvey's finding a model for living in the person of his friend. Manuel. The other is the We're Here's battle for her cargo, and her race home against the Jenny Cushman. Either alone would have made a good picture. Together, as luminous on the fantastic seascape of the banks as lightning on a ship's masthead, they make a fine one. So magnificent are its sweep and excitement, so harmonious its design, that Captains...
...present-day author incites to political action, few have practised what they preach. One of the few is André Malraux (Man's Fate); Ralph Bates is another. Frenchman Malraux served on a revolutionary committee in the abortive Communist rising in Canton (1927), lived to tell the tale. Britisher Bates's first two books (Lean Men, The Olive Fields; were laid in Spain, where last July he joined the Loyalists to fight against Franco. Perhaps because these writers are not simply men of words but of deeds, the stones they write seem as direct as action. Ralph Bates...