Word: wayes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Later, some of the accusers confessed that they had sinned. Wrote the Rev. John Hale, who had been a witness against one of the witches: "We walked in clouds and could not see our way. And we have most cause to be humble for error . . . which cannot be retrieved." And indeed it could not be retrieved, for before the nine months' hysteria spent itself 20 innocent men & women had been executed in Salem...
...with the Golden Arm, Chicago Novelist Nelson Algren's compassionate understanding of Frankie and his world is the foundation of one of the finest novels so far this year. Readers with queasy stomachs may shrink from an environment in which the unbelievably sordid has become a way of life. They will also come away with some of Algren's own tender concern for his wretched, confused and hopelessly degenerate cast of characters. In that, Writer Algren scores a true novelist's triumph...
...confessional couch. Dean, a successful commercial artist and nephew of revolutionary Sculptor Jacob Epstein, has some of the humor of a Thurber or a Steig: but he is not trying to be funny. This is his third book of drawings (the others: It's a Long Way to Heaven, What Am I Doing Here?), all owed to the remorseless probings of Drs. Freud and Jung. Like the others, it is a grim search through the weird subconscious levels of John Doe, a search that altogether misses heart & soul but finds a spirit crushed and shriveled by what Abner Dean...
...trade he also got forged identification papers, a supply of Reichsmarks, ration stamps, sandwiches, a revolver, compass and a cyanide tablet. His assignment: to travel 400 kilometers in a broad, jagged semicircle behind the enemy's lines, find where two "missing" German divisions were stationed and make his way back to the Americans...
Each of the agents met his crisis in his own way. Happy's fate was sealed when the pursuit forced him off the highways and into the headquarters of one of the divisions he had come to Germany to find; too many people got a good look at him, and remembered his face later...