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...King's letter went on & on in that vein. What it boiled down to in the American language was: "Oliver, we're getting along all right with the Americans, but the situation is ticklish and might come unstuck. Go over there and keep a sharp eye on things, keep in touch with the right people, keep selling the good old Empire-and don't let Bertie McCormick bite...
...took his humor and toughness with him, his Grail-poem, "Directive" (1947), has a sorrowful magic like nothing he had written before. If this was the old man's intolerable touch of poetry, A Masque of Reason (1945) and A Masque of Mercy (1947) carried on his vein...
...cling to the hope") and devastating responses to thoughtless queries ("Why should not school be an open and natural life, like any other?" "Like what other?" said Mr. Firebrace). There are also numerous succinct summings-up whose blandness is more savage than savagery itself: "Maria had also a vein of justice, and though she regretted [her stepson's] existence and his grandfather's, never questioned their right...
...other hand, Pierre Schneider's sensitive piece of criticism, "Celine, A Lasting Scream," shows what can be done in a critical vein. Schneider, in his analysis of this novelist's technique, does an excellent job of evaluating the contemporary novel in general, the novel whose author "plucks only the lowest and smoothest cord." He catches and understands the power that Celine's works carry, and acutely dissects the reason's effect of that power on the reader...
Potter notes: "No matter how wild Lifeman's quiet insertion may be, it is enough to create a pause, even a tiny sensation . . . To break the winning vein, break the flow...