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...says, "Anyway, Joyce still forces his critics to perform their proper function. He demands that they understand completely his process of creation before they can understand his works." Well, although Green explains in a footnote that he composed his story in seven nights, and also gives thanks to various helpers, (e.g., "Merei Maria"), this critic professes to understand neither the process of creation nor the work. The story is well-written; there are constant allusions to Joyce, Eliot and others; the stream of consciousness device is made much use of; the piece concerns two characters working out their artistic...
...finds that an elderly G-man (Art Smith) is also after the crook. The picture develops into a sort of three-legged rat race, carried on against the background of a small-time posh hotel, a grim little cantina and a turbulent fiesta. The movie has some well-written, better-spoken tough talk, plenty of menace, and some sharp violence. A good deal of it is just routine pocket thriller. But thanks to Director Montgomery and Producer Joan Harrison there is also some good New Mexican location atmosphere...
...MOONLIGHT (309 pp.)-Joyce Cary-Harper ($3). The Moonlight has the psychological suspense of a well-written thriller. But it is something more. It is the account of an English family trying to live by a Victorian code in the present-day world, told with personal aloofness from the tragic consequences that suggests the attitude of Thomas Hardy...
...postwar England's technology and scientific development-ostensibly for the benefit of the common man. The champions of Good: a handful of rather painfully decent English types under the leadership and protection of the trilogy's hero, Dr. Ransom. In Lewis' sure hands the story becomes well-written, fast-paced satirical fantasy...
...gathered in Central Park to hear the President. They stretched almost across the width of the park. But they were not stirred by the speech. The President said little he had not said before. As usual, he sounded as if he were reciting from a copybook, not too well-written. But this time the copybook had a new and very impressive binding. Against the background of the seapower in the Hudson and the airpower over Manhattan's skyscrapers, he restated U.S. foreign policy...