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Author Lytle, 54, has long been one of a group of regional writers, e.g., Robert Penn Warren. John Crowe Ransom, enraptured by the agrarian tradition of the middle South. He put eight years into writing The Velvet Horn, and it shows in the detailed research, the loving re-creation of events and places, the carefully archaic turn of phrase. Long after most readers have forgotten his flamboyant Cropleighs, they will remember such fine set pieces as the marriage of Julia and the wake of Joe Cree with its barbecue, and the excellent sketches of the mountain people, whose folk talk...
...prologue was appropriate enough, but the epilogue was ineffectual and ill-advisd. He furthermore incorporated, by changing the sex or name of some of the characters, scenes from Les fourberies de Scapin, which Moliere penned right after finishing the present work--specifically, the portions dealing with the extortion of ransom money for a phony kidnapping. In principle I do not approve of the directorial use of scissors and paste; but in this case I am forced to admit that the practice did bolster somewhat the thin story line and turn out satisfactorily...
Among variegated practitioners of talk-it-out treatment for emotional problems, Chicago's Psychologist Carl Ransom Rogers, 55, has long been a maverick. He calls his method "client-centered therapy," tries manfully to define it: "We see therapy as an experience, not in intellectual terms. We treat the client as a person, not as an object to be manipulated and directed." Snorts a Chicago psychoanalyst of neo-Freudian persuasion: "Rogers' method is unsystematic, undisciplined and humanistic. Rogers doesn't analyze and doesn't diagnose. We have no common ground." To Rogers that is fine...
...baseball bum." Some Cincinnati fans suggested glumly that Hoak was a bum already-as a Dodger in 1954 and '55, he had looked poor next to Third Basemen Billy Cox and Jackie Robinson. Last year as a Cub, he was an unpopular and ineffectual replacement for handsome Ransom Jackson. He hit a piddling .215, set an embarrassing major-league record by striking out six times in a single game with the Giants...
...that country. On another occasion he alleged that the Chinese were stubbornly holding the prisoners to force the U.S. to allow newsmen to enter the country. If this should be the case, it seems that the U.S. cannot lose, and it would be in any event a small ransom to pay, for a government that bought the release of four airmen downed in Hungary in 1951 by paying a $120,000 "fine...