Word: unromanticized
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THE VOICE OF BUGLE ANN-MacKinlay Kantor-Coward-McCann ($1.25). MacKinlay Kantor has long revealed a preoccupation with native Midwestern themes and legends of the sort that characterize folk literature. The Jaybird, his novel of a wandering Civil War musician who befriended a Kansas waif, was a sentimental tale for...
Lily became conscious of her love with panic. When she found herself talking with affected girlishness she was shocked, but felt queerly exalted and lightheaded: "It was not entirely a pleasant sensation, having in it something of the faint excitement and distress that accompanies flying in dreams." Ackerly, a sea...
Miss Delafield's homely comedy of quiet laughter and gentle tears chiefly concerns Caroline Allerton (Patricia Collinge), a dowdy little matron on whom is just dawning the appalling realization that life has no more excitement in store for her. Her children are at school, her husband is concerned only...
Five hundred poets and prose writers in 80 Soviet languages and dialects were welcomed to Moscow last week by unromantic Josef Stalin as "engineers of the human soul." Soon walrus-mustached Maxim Gorky opened the First All-Union Congress of Soviet Writers with a speech recommending study of the Russian...
Always at bottom the soldier, Shah Riza spent the closing hours of his visit to Istanbul last week with Turkish generals bent over staff maps showing the new strategic motor roads and railways of Turkey and Persia. Ten years ago there was no railway striking east from Ankara toward Persia...