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...individuals but also mature in the course of the volume. At points the intimate realism in describing Flip's artistic ambitions, her crush on Professor Brooks Creighton, and her feeling of estrangement from the life at home, approaches the bitter dissection of college life in Wolfe's "Look Homeward, Angel"-though Miss Carrick's approach lacks his sweeping inclusiveness and turgid power. Her polished style and delicate portrayal temperament are more in the urbane manner of Willa Cather. Only the concluding chapter betrays a novice hand. The threads of the plot, unsnarled but not firmly and finally knotted, dangle rather...
...novel, The Hills Beyond is mostly short flights of fiction. The opening piece on Grover Gant (who died early in Look Homeward, Angel) is a short, beautifully disciplined work, in a style of which Wolfe is popularly supposed to have been incapable. Chickamauga, which Wolfe slicked up unnaturally in the vain hope of selling it to the Satevepost, is a respectable experiment in the U.S. vernacular, as un-Wolfeishly plain as weathered bone. Also included: a steely-clean character sketch of a rich old New Yorker waking up; an almost religious essay on loneliness; a hard spanking of a literary...
...once more displays amazing versatility. Uproariously funny scenes are provided by the minor characters, especially blundering, vulture-visaged Edward Everett' Horton and James Gleason, who does one of the funniest pantomime jobs since Charlie Chaplin hung up the baggy pants and Hitler mustache. Claude Rains, as Mr. Jordan (the Angel Gabriel in a streamline edition) gives one of the subtlest characterizations of recent screen history...
Prominent in Crimson rowing circles although never an oarsman in one of Tom Bolles' eights, Hurd is the grandson of Robert Herrick, Harvard's crew angel, who annually donates one or two new $1,500 shells to the H.A.A...
...base were confined to quarters for twelve hours. Soon new troops took over at Paraná and the Government's Aviation School at Córdoba. Aviation munitions were moved from airports to infantry depots and the Military College at El Palomar. Commander of Army Aviation General Angel Maria Zuloaga not only resigned but, the next day, was removed by decree. The Government announced that disaffection among many Argentine flyers would be investigated...