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...other things to offer besides literary mud. There are some sharply evocative sketches of French aristocrats in the old-fashioned countryside, and of French Protestants in a prim, latter-day Huguenot Parisian flat. And there is the strange children's world in which cruelty is mixed with utter innocence. The novel won the 1950 Prix Goncourt and sold 100,000 copies in France. But then, French tastes have always been rather special...
...Roman Catholic, and while I do not agree with the teachings of the Church of England, I do greatly resent your publishing this type of utter nonsense...
Noyes's autobiography shows that his life has traveled on the same orthodox feet as his poetry. Of his parents, he says firmly: "I have nothing sadistic to report." Of his childhood: "Nor can I utter a single agonized cry of self-pity." As an Oxford undergraduate he joined "a little group . . . who were keenly interested in literature," but "rowing became the most important thing in life." He records only two rebellious outbursts: a spell of agnos-ticism at the age of 15, and playing hooky from Oxford exams in order to write his first volume of poems...
From Pankrac, Oatis was taken to the U.S. Embassy in Prague, and after breakfast with Ambassador George Wadsworth, was driven to the U.S. zone of Germany. To newsmen who met him at the border, Oatis, thin and pale, seemed bewildered. On his face was the look of utter confusion that imprisoned men often wear when first confronted with the outside world again. Newsman Oatis had been cut off so completely that he did not know Eisenhower was President, that Stalin was dead, that he himself had become a symbol for the free press of the West. When one reporter greeted...
...drab little fable with the moral the Beauty Lies in the Heart. With the aid of a spectral Samaritan, Dorothy Fields proves the point by shedding the bags under her eyes when she learns the meaning of love. Duvivier makes the whole thing pretty intense, with the actors expressing utter banalities with deadly seriousness. When the embittered hero, for example, declares: "I wanted to be President!" he sounds as determined as Harold Stassen...