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MADAME DE POMPADOUR (324 pp.) Nancy Mitford- Random House...
...WORLD IN THE EVENING (301 pp.)-Christopher Isherwood-Random House...
...writes as the mind is purported to think: in fragments. His narrator is a wounded veteran from the French army of World War I who goes to live in London, among "pimps, prostitutes, a pawnbroker, an arsonist, and a magician." The action shifts from place to place, almost at random, and the transitions are so violent as to be unintelligible. Unintroduced characters appear and drop out, but they are not missed. At the close of the work the narrator catches a bus. The book is finished, and the narrator forgotten...
Robert Maynard Hutchins, who left the University of Chicago to underpin the Ford Foundation, made an appearance at a credit-men's convention in San Francisco and unburdened himself of some random thoughts on the lurking perils of 100% Americanism: "To hear these people [i.e., superpatriots] talk, you would think that the American way consisted of unanimous tribal self-admiration . . . There is a present danger that critics of even the mildest sort will be frightened into silence ... I sometimes think we are approaching the point where it will be impossible for one person to be seen with another person...
...WONDERFUL WRITING MACHINE (236 pp.)-Bruce Bliven Jr.- Random House...