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...title refers, in irony, to a select circle of the prewar Harvard faculty, to which the heroine is hostess; the novel exhibits the breakdown of 1) the principle of selection, 2) the circle, and 3) the hostess. Miss Howe (sister of radio commentator Quincy Howe, daughter of Mark De Wolfe Howe) works a modest claim in territory on which J. P. Marquand had an option. Her ear is attentive, though incapable of his flights of parody; her knowledge of Boston, Cambridge and Harvard politics is sharp and sometimes subtle; her style is firm, though it would have been firmer...
...Baldwin's approximate breakdown (in thousands): Germany, 700; Rumania, 390; Poland, 325; Hungary, 260; Korea, 200; Bulgaria, 150; Austria, 105; Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia and Iran, up to 10 (probably NKVD...
...Striving '30s. The decade after 1931 brought for artists much grimmer obstacles, more massive threats than the mere fate of not being understood. This decade made it seem that "the West" (civilization) faced a breakdown. The young strove to achieve large and general, "responsible" solutions...
...TIME erred; Reader Parks' breakdown is correct...
Early this week the blow fell. The British delegation announced that the Indians could not come to any agreement. Despite concessions from both sides, "unbridgeable" differences remained. The breakdown in negotiations did not mean that India would not be freed. All along, the realistic Britishers had assumed that they might have to impose a government in spite of Indian differences...