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Though all novelists tacitly agree that their proper study is Man, some merely tickle or tattoo their subject. Serious novelists take a knife to him. Author Malraux's, Man's Fate (TIME. June 25), proved him to be of the surgical sort. Since not everyone can calmly witness the bloody business of such an operation, however earnestly and skilfully performed, many drew back from the spectacle of Man's Fate with shuddering dislike. The Royal Way will hardly please them better, though the surface excitement of its melodrama should make it a more popular performance...
Like the late Joseph Conrad, Malraux sets his story against a sinister and savage background, gives it, without Conrad's ambiguity, a deeper than surface significance. Man's fate, he implicitly says, is death, but there is a royal way to it, for those who have the courage to take...
...Fate echoed Malraux's experience as a revolutionary in China's bloody years, 1925-27, when he was Commissioner of Propaganda for the government of the South, helped stage the Canton insurrection. He could supply at least the scenery for The Royal Way from his archeological explorations in Cambodia and Siam. A publisher's assistant (house of Gallimard), he takes adventurous holidays, last year flew across the Great Arabian Desert and reported the discovery of the legendary city of Sheba (TIME, March...
...there is at present no threat of a playoff being necessary. The Orange and Black has been seriously crippled by numerous injuries and with an almost non-existent reserve squad the Princeton team can only win through a series of opportune breaks. Coach Fredrickson seems resigned to his fate and has spent the last few practice sessions in developing power plays which are especially of effective against a short-handed opponent...
...Fatal Curiosity, although not so popular as its predecessor, had a real influence on English drama. It was adapted by the German dramatist Werner . . . [which] led to a whole host of plays that became extremely popular in Germany during the 19th Century. They were known as Schicksal Dramen (fate plays). The fate plays came over to England in translation, were enthusiastically received and were in part the forerunners of the romantic melodrama, so characteristic of the last century both in England and in this country, and still in evidence today...