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Author Kenneth Fearing has tried to clamp a humanist allegory on a science-fiction frame. His real villain, the Industrial Revolution, is 200 years old, and his moral (Destroy the machine before the machine destroys you) has an antique creak. The author of that high-voltage thriller, The Big Clock, Fearing seems to have forgotten for the moment what time...
...touch of a talented cinematic showoff. In a familiar shot of tennis spectators pivoting their heads to & fro, he plants the conspicuously immobile head of the murderer, staring at the hero. He intercuts a Forest Hills tennis match, which Granger desperately tries to win in time to intercept the villain, with a scene over a sewer grating miles away, where the murderer is straining to recover a vital piece of evidence...
...gotten to the point where emotion on both sides had hardened into righteous indignation, and the original facts were buried under pride & prejudice. To a vocal majority, deposed President Paul Wagner, the young whirlwind who came triumphantly on the scene two years ago, was now the self-seeking villain of the piece who had richly earned his comeuppance. To a dwindling minority who still supported Wagner, he was the scapegoat in a situation he had worsened but not made. On orders from an economy-minded board of trustees, Wagner had abruptly fired one-third of the faculty this spring (TIME...
...communication with the outside world), where he and the natives briskly dispose of several dozen heavily armed Nazis, blow up the schooner and a brace of submarines. In the story of a war which seems almost nostalgically simple these days, Claude Rains is selfconsciously Prussian as the head villain and Carla Balenda does her best to look decorative as the unnecessary heroine...
Author Mailer's new novel is hauled from the literary graveyard of the '30s, when "social consciousness" was in vogue. Like other books of the school, it tries to pin the blame for human evil on the favorite villain of every park-bench anarchist, "the system...