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Stephanie knows him as Hugo. To Cairo Joy, his other girl, he is Willard. By any other name he would still be a heel. He sleeps regularly with Stephanie, a lovely Viennese with a face scarred during the London blitz. He sleeps once with Cairo
Author Grossman is managing editor of East Europe, a serious magazine published by the Free Europe Committee, but in this first novel he is also a cynical commentator on the U.S. scene. He is obviously convinced that there is something hollow at the core of American life. Willard-Hugo can be devastating as he describes a suburban party given by Cairo Joy's married sister. He raises hob with giveaway shows, the pornographic-picture trade along Times Square, the shallow mind of little Miss Average whose only coup in life is the landing of a husband...
...emptiness really lies at the core of Willard's character. When he finds that he is in love with Stephanie, he avoids the responsibility that love requires by taking refuge in jealousy and smashing the affair. In the end he tries to murder the man with whom he suspects Stephanie of cheating, but it is an innocent boy who becomes the victim of his senseless attack. The trouble is that Author Grossman's hero is more ridiculous than his victims, and the social vices he flays seem almost attractive compared to the empty reaches of his own sick...
...would find no jobs in an economy which, like the service veterans, had to reconvert to peacetime production. Afraid that federal subsidies would lure idle vets to campus, the University of Chicago's Robert M. Hutchins warned that vets would breed "educational hobo jungles." Sociologist Willard Waller, recalling that World War I Veterans Hitler and Mussolini first recruited veterans, wrote ominously: "Veterans have written many a bloody page of history, and those pages have stood forever as a record of their days of anger...
Dean Monro and Donald Willard of the Boston Globe will speak to the representatives tonight at a Harvard Union dinner. At a luncheon tomorrow, they will meet Louis Lyons, curator of the Nieman Fellowships, and several of the Nieman Fellows...