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Prue Hathaway (Joan Fontaine), upper-class daughter of a renowned English medico (Philip Merivale), never does answer that one, except to ask her beloved deserter to trust his heart, not his head. But she manages to straighten him out and point his nose toward battle once again with the reasonable admonition: "Whatever does happen, let us decide it, not the enemy...
...Author Meeker's credit he handles these somewhat Suetonian materials not only without playing them up for the salacious trade, but so firmly that they become a social and human document, richly textured with quotidian details of housekeeping, matchmaking, small-talk and general upper-class living. Even the glimpses of Court, of battle, of provincial life, have little of the quality of set pieces, much of the taste of immediacy. Few historical novels do as much...
...lawn of a country house, on a summer afternoon in 1939, a group of upper-class English people watch a village pageant and retire with its ambiguous messages fading on "the sky of the mind." By this time the afternoon is over, Mrs. Woolf has conjured up a heroic image of the whole splendor of English literature and history, from the age when rhododendrons crowded Piccadilly to the moment when, puzzled, uneasy, a little offended, the audience beholds itself torn to pieces among the flashing mirrors of the village players in their finale, called England: Ourselves...
...whose real name is Ezequiel Rosas, first studied medicine with his father, a healer of the Caingua Indians. When Tupá Mbaé began working on an Argentine plantation other workers trickled, then streamed, to him for cures. As the years passed, more and more upper-class sick appeared. Among the poor people's gifts of fruit and wood, Tupá Mbaé began to find one, five and ten peso notes. One day he got the idea that he could live by medicine alone. Near Oberá, Argentina, he built up a practice of 10,000 patients...
Curtis Thomas, though not even a typical Harvard man, has turned in a fine job on his long short story, "Duration." His writing suffers a little from overly blunt sarcasm, but he conveys to his readers a sharp and biting picture of American upper-class attitudes towards the war, as seen through the eyes of an English child refugee, Although his idea of British morale may be partly a product of wishful thinking, the contrast he brings out between the British who fight without hating, and the Americans who hate without fighting is a powerful...