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...Origins of the Second World War is not a polemical tract; it is an excellent and fair-minded study of inter-war diplomacy. If Taylor offers an interpretive argument, he arrives at it deductively, after an impressive examination of documents and motives...
...enigma of Guerrero is not fully resolved at the book's end; he is a less complete character than that other Stacton enigma, the Pharaoh Ikhnaton of the brilliant On a Balcony (TIME, Sept. 6. 1959). The trouble may be that philosophical novelists are, in their weakest moments, tract-writing zealots. Stacton's message in this book is that the proper study of doomed men is how to die with dignity. But in his eagerness to give his hero a suitable death, he has neglected to bring him credibly to life...
...Against this dismal pattern the magazine holds a genuinely impressive tract, the introduction to the Secretary General's Annual Report. The product of the late Dag Hammarskold's lucid mind, it describes concepts of the U.N. as a "static conference for resolving conflicts of interest and ideologies" (the Wiley view) or as an organization able to play an effective role in the world through executive action. The only pity of it is that it ends so suddenly...
...Avenue of the Americas, is only two blocks from NBC's 70-story skyscraper in Rockefeller Center. Thus a main goal of the architecture is to make CBS look distinguished in comparison to its lofty rival. The sunken plaza that consumes almost half the space of the tract not only singles the building out but draws the eye downward before it turns upward, adding to the effect of rise...
Insulted? But with the discovery of Culture, life took on new meaning. In 1951 he composed a scathing 7,000-word tract. Has God Been Insulted Here?, in which he deplored the "vulgarity" of Faulkner, James Jones, Picasso and Tennessee Williams. Four years later, he bought full-page ads in six Manhattan newspapers to complain that the art world was misleading the people with "obscurity, confusion, immorality, violence," demanded that the public rise up against the "high priests of criticism and the museum directors and the teachers of mumbo jumbo." Bolstering his messianic pronouncements with cash. Hartford got Architect Edward...