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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...analytic reminiscence about the courting days of a New York high school couple. Banker writes without subtlety: most of the gestures and remarks of his characters are interpreted in his prose. Much of the story is dull and some of it is riddled with cliches--"And again, for reasons unknown, the tone of their conversation has changed. They speak in low, intimate voices: something has created a bond between them...
...face. Officials helped Laniel elbow his way to a police car. Police had to link arms and plow a path before Pleven could make it to his own car. "This is the first time such a disgraceful and disagreeable scene has ever occurred at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier," said an official...
...This Tormented Land." One after another, the remaining defendants pleaded not guilty and told almost identical stories of solitary confinements, night interrogations, beatings, hunger, thirst-always with only one way out: signing a confession. Defense Counsel Lacort passionately denounced the police methods. "Here," he said, "are methods unknown to any civilized nation this side of the Iron Curtain . . . absolutely illegal. These men are not criminals. They are victims.This is a mockery...
...UNKNOWN CHEKHOV: STORIES AND OTHER WRITINGS HITHERTO UNTRANSLATED (316 pp.) - Anton Chekhov - Noonday...
...Chekhov should be as happy these days as a muzhik over a bowl of borsch. Since the end of the war Chekhov's complete works have been published in Russia, and translators have had their choice of some 200 stories (out of Chekhov's 600) that were unknown in English. In The Woman in the Case and The Unknown Chekhov, 37 of these stories and a handful of articles and sketches are published in the U.S. for the first time. They include some first-rate Chekhov...