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Pritchett is a first-rate critic of literature (London's New Statesman) who can also write it, usually in a minor key. The people he writes of are, for the most part, determinedly average-tradesmen, housewives, laborers, accountants. But Pritchett has a gift for spotting the seeds of madness that threaten to sprout in the most prosaic minds. And he writes of his characters' inner cataclysms and defeats in a tone as dry and controlled as the featureless faces they present to the world...
...about 12½ million now), the increasing threat of automation, and long-term unemployment in organized industries, A.F.L.-C.I.O. unions have come to ignore their no-raiding pledges, compete bitterly with one another for membership. A major new "grey area" of conflict: factory maintenance. Although building tradesmen have always held a monopoly on industrial construction, C.I.O.-formed unions have traditionally carried out essential maintenance. Recently, craft locals have bid for maintenance contracts by offering to do the job at lower wages and with no fringe benefits...
...Daily Telegraph, a listless, conservative has been of 84,000 circulation when Publisher Sir William Ewert Berry took it over in 1928, has surged to success on that very formula. By dropping the price of the paper to a penny, Berry put it within reach of Britain's tradesmen, tailored its contents to the middle class's conservative but aspiring tastes. Under Berry, the first Viscount Camrose, the Telegraph dispensed both news and editorial opinion with such an even hand that a critic once complained that the paper "ignores nothing-and explains nothing...
...coupla million nicker" (steal ?2,000,000) but unfortunately finds himself "in boob" (in jail). Fortunately, Jailbird Sellers inhabits a gilded cage that contains a radio, a wine cellar, a fully equipped kitchen, a cuckoo clock, an amiable tabby. Milk and papers are delivered every morning by the local tradesmen. The turnkey knocks timidly before entering and walks the cat upon request. Morning massage by a cellmate is followed by classes in basket weaving, fretwork and (when the warden looks the other way) safe blowing...
Unprincely Manner. But Faisal's austerity did not sit well with many Saudis. Budget cuts brought to a near standstill King Saud's busy building of palaces and impressive government offices in Riyadh, and grumbling artisans and tradesmen quit town by the thousands. And Feisal's stern watchdog role took a heavy personal toll. Troubled for years by a stomach ailment, he went on a liquid diet and an 18-hour workday. Snapped one Saudi who recently visited Feisal: "His dingy office was piled right to the ceiling with files, files, files. He insisted on signing everything...