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...MAKING OF THE PRESIDENT, 1964, by Theodore H. White. The author's reporting skills are partly wasted on an election notably lacking in excitement or color. But the reader is rewarded with all the hot-line conversations and every last ravel in the G.O.P. sleave of care...
Peace at No Price. For all that, the regular Times reader could not miss the fact that among the paper's senior staffers, opinion on Viet Nam is less than unanimous. Last February, Military Affairs Editor Hanson W. Baldwin wrote an article for the Sunday magazine urging the U.S. to step up its commitment to Viet Nam and prepare for a long war. "Viet Nam is a nasty place to fight," said Baldwin. "But there are no neat and tidy battlefields in the struggle for freedom; there is no 'good' place...
...reader has any business being amused, or even feeling comfortable, in the company of Peter De Vries. At one irrepressible level, the man masquerades as a humorist, perfectly capable of reeling out one outlandishly felicitous conceit after another. The conceits abound in this book. "Get divorced while you're young," says one character to another. This is not funny. It is in the same key as that timeless anecdote of the Indian victim, trussed and scalped, who is asked bv his saviors if he is in any pain. "Only when I laugh," he says...
Surprisingly he is also accepted as such by the reader. This second novel by Iris Dornfeld (Jeeney Ray), who is the wife of Nation Editor Carey McWilliams and a musician in her own right, has many faults-among them a bifurcated plot structure and an occasionally cluttered style. But it has one peculiar and overriding merit. In the contorted, possessed character of Boy Gravely, Author Dornfeld has created a marvelously perceptive delineation of the terrible disease and destiny that is genius...
...Dorothy L. Sayers, Geoffrey L. Bickersteth and Laurence Binyon have severally translated La Commedia into rhyming tercets, and translated it amazingly well. John D. Sinclair has prepared an excellent edition of La Commedia that offers the original Italian and a faithful prose translation on opposite pages. But for the reader without Italian, the most satisfactory versions are those in blank verse. Lawrence Grant White is both accurate and musical, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, though his diction is at times antique, presents passages of stunning power and precision. Unfortunately, neither of these is readily available at this writing. In preparing...