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But for this fact, the novel The Long View might be a work of art. Its theme-the defeat of the ingrown English middle class-has been needleworked by such skilled knitters and tatters as Ivy (Men and Wives) Compton-Burnett and Elizabeth (The House in Paris) Bowen. The Long...
Despite agonizing burns about her head, neck, chest and arms, Shigeko made her way to an aid station. There, three days later, her mother found her. With doctors all but wiped out-and the few survivors helpless against disorders they could not diagnose-Mrs. Niimoto took charge. When she tried...
The Government first began sending abroad a trickle of catalogues from Sears, Montgomery Ward, and a few other companies in 1946. Although they were mostly old and dog-eared, they were an instant hit. People on both sides of the Iron Curtain thumbed them to tatters. In Belgrade, Yugoslavs used...
Actress Kim Stanley, 29, belongs to a growing school of young stage people (Marlon Brando, Julie Harris, Geraldine Page) whose particular brand of acting is laughingly called The Method. There is seldom any eye-rolling madness in this methodism: the actor does not tear a passion to tatters. Instead, he...
The irony goes deep-deeper sometimes than the author can smelt it. Machado was occasionally a careless workman: his characters often come tumbling into view piecemeal-so many arms, fears, eyes, legs, longings, that the reader must assemble them as he can. The symbolism of the dog with the same...