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...WATCHMAN, by Davis Grubb (275 pp.; Scribner; $3.95), is the latest of the author's marrow-chilling tales of good and evil, written in a style compounded of Hans Christian Andersen imaginativeness and American Gothic hyperbole. His Night of the Hunter (1954), a surefooted, poetic horror story of two children and a malevolent pursuer, was told with controlled passion. Now in The Watchman, Grubb has pulled out all the stops, piled terror on madness, disaster on helplessness. The book is a mixture of poetic rage against cruelty in man, a song in praise of physical love...
...watchman of the title is the sheriff of a West Virginia town in the Ohio Valley, an apostle of nonviolence who has never fired at a criminal. Big and fearless, he inspires such confidence in the townspeople that no one sleeps uneasy at night. Then a young man is murdered, the son of one of the town's best families and the boy friend of one of the sheriff's two daughters. Why couldn't the sheriff be found the day of the murder, or for a day or so after that? And how could Daughter Jill...
...first two productions of the Tufts season were far superior to the present program. As its first production, Tufts staged an adaptation of "Our American Cousin", the play at which Lincoln was shot. Lowell Swortzell's adaptation has as one of its main character the watchman at the Ford Theater. This character serves as a narrator, describing the events that took place on the day that Lincoln was shot. Within this framework "Our American Cousin" was presented as a series of flashbacks to the performance and a rehearsal allegedly held earlier in the day. In the midst of this historical...
...Terrible Cracking." At 6 one evening last week, André Ferraud, the dam watchman, decided to open the safety sluices a little, although shortly before, a group of engineers had vetoed such a precaution for fear the overflow might damage the foundations of a new superhighway under construction from Fréjus to Cannes...
...French Revolution?) as M'sieur Pierre. The prison itself is timeless, universal, born of an idea turned into phantasm. Its antic rules ("the management shall in no case be responsible for the loss of property or for the inmate himself"), the handless clock on which a watchman hourly paints in the hands, and, above all, the jailers' constant and somehow insane concern for the prisoner's welfare-all add up to a caricature of prisons everywhere. The fussy, pedantic, sentimental jailers are so many congealed crocodile tears; what a naughty boy the prisoner really is, they appear...