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...National Book Awards. Honored were Novelist Conrad Richter, 70, for his tenth novel, The Waters of Kronos (TIME, April 18, 1960), an old man's fevered attempt to distill the lessons of his forgotten youth; Journalist William L. Shirer, 57, for his massive (1,245 PP) study of Hitler's Germany, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (TIME, Oct. 17); and Poet Randall Jarrell, 46, for his eighth book, The Woman at the Washington...
HEAVEN HAS No FAVORITES (302 pp.)-Erich Maria Remarque - Harcourt, Brace & World...
RING OF BRIGHT WATER (211 pp.)-Gavin Maxwell-Duffon...
SEVEN PLAYS (587 pp.) - Bertolt Brecht-Grove...
TAKE A GIRL LIKE You, by Kingsley Amis (320 pp.; Harcourt, Brace; $3.95), recalls that before novelists ruined a good dodge by inventing realism, a writer could blather pleasantly for three volumes on nothing more substantial than "She shouldn't, but will she?" Now everyone assumes that she will, but should she? The question is of grave concern to young women, their parents, psychiatrists and friends, but it is not a very good theme for an entire novel. A snickering approach inevitably blasphemes against Freud, and a serious treatment defames Boccaccio. In this somewhat disappointing book, Kingsley (Lucky...