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Victoria Grandolet is an uneven, atmosphere-saturated novel, expertly written, distinguished by some subtle shadings in its portraits, and weakened by an overemphasis on the romanticism of the Old South. It is noteworthy because there might seem to be no earthly reason why this story of married life should come to its unhappy end. The story proceeds from highly complicated causes to effects that are always more than a little ambiguous. But in its account of the silent, invisible, termite undermining of affection and trust, the ghastly cost of the withholding of truth between man and wife, Victoria Grandolet makes...
From Cotton Mather to F. D. R. In Mainstream Hamilton Basso has a new character in a new scene. The character: John Applegate, an average American. The scene: his mind. An uneven and diffuse book of ten chapters and 246 pages, Mainstream contains thumbnail biographical sketches that run in time from Cotton Mather to Franklin Roosevelt, in variety from John Calhoun to Phineas Barnum. Also included are a brief exposition of their ideas or of the aspect of American life they represented, good quotations from their works and a wandering argument that appears and disappears through the pages like...
...Living Force. Its double value to U.S. readers is that it simultaneously introduces them to the best British general and to a body of literature they have largely neglected: the spirited, emotional, uneven, intense and practically useful compositions of military men. Its distinction is that it makes common sense not a mere negative quality - the avoidance of mistakes - but a pulsing, living force, strange as genius and more understandable ; unbeatable, kindly, unexpected, confident, and as essential to the winning of a world war as it is to organizing a practical world peace...
...moved steadily up through the Giannini empire for the past 25 years, is a man after old A. P.'s heart. He went to work after two years of high school, hates "golfing bankers." When someone asks him how much bigger the Bank of America can become, his uneven beetle brows twitch and he snaps back "How high...
...record was a curiously uneven document. It came into being as the people's answer to the wretched 77th, which had botched and boggled its way into history, cursed from coast to coast for its pensions-for-Congressmen, its personal X-cards for gas, its lack of statesmanship...