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...better than the average joke in Punch, and U.S. editions of Lucky Jim and a second novel. That Uncertain Feeling, have barely topped the 5,000 mark in sales. His fellow writers would probably fare even worse, for they write with a sloppy, cliche-ridden arrogance that has been absent from serious U.S. fiction since the heyday of James T. Farrell and the cult of social protest...
...area of intellectual struggle, if it has been shifted from within the painting to the surface, is not entirely absent. "Sun Landscape" shows a sucesful and deeply probing resolution of the problem of color and texture. This painting radiates heat by close color combinations and it is no wonder that it has made some people nostalgic for desert country of the West. A very different but equally successful atmosphere is created in the more subtle here than usual, more wintry and thoughtful than the favorite spring and summer brightness of Gerassi's latest period...
...Hollywood Palladium by 2,200 well-heeled Republicans, Knowland got a raft of solid applause, intoned a rambling speech that was significant only for intimations of his political future. Potshot at Ike: the budget should be cut-by $3 billion, no less. Potshot at Knight (who was avoidably absent from the dinner): "The people of California are entitled to select their own nominees for public office and not to be handed a selected group where the public has no real choice ... in determining the nominees for governor." Big Bill, it was easy to see, was not just riding a rocking...
...objections set forth by most prospective enlistees would be to divide the active-duty plan into two three-month sessions. This would make the program feasible for high school and college students to complete during summer vacations, and represents about the maximum time during which an employee can be absent from his job. These dual sessions would create an increase in cost and administrative action on the part of the government, but the added expense would be more than compensated for by the assurance that better educated and perhaps more competent people would find it practical to serve...
With a connoisseur's transfixed expression, he begged a sample, tasted a spoonful, pronounced it "the best chocolate I've ever tasted." The woman let him inside, gave a rundown on her absent husband's activities...