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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Magnificent Seven. The best western so far this year, this film is an impressive and occasionally profound contemplation of the life of violence...
...SEPARATE PEACE, by John Knowles. In this quietly brilliant exploration of adolescence, a youngster makes the discovery that hatred and admiration are mixed in his feelings for his best friend, and that hatred can be tragically stronger...
VICTORY IN THE PACIFIC, by Samuel Eliot Morison. This 14th volume of Morison's History of United States Naval Operations in World War II includes exciting accounts of the battles of Okinawa and Iwo Jima, brings to a close the best of all U.S. service histories...
...civilization has not yet touched, whose poverty-stricken people are the descendants of the Spartans and still speak familiarly of Helen of Troy. British Author Fermor describes their way of life and their dramatic, forbidding countryside with a knowledgeability and high style that make Mani the year's best travel book...
...author has not troubled herself to invent this chess master. Paul Morphy, the only world champion at chess the U.S. has produced, was born in New Orleans in 1837. At ten, he began beating the best players in Louisiana, and at 21 he had beaten the best in the world. A year later he abandoned chess, possibly because the girl he hoped to marry scorned the game. Morphy, as Novelist Keyes resurrects him, is a colorless weakling, whose intellect, despite the fact that everyone thinks him brilliant, is an unfavorable blend of compoop and nincompoop...