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...passable poems here, but only a few. The great body of these verses are jounce-rhymed, solemn and obvious. The contrast with the majesty and freedom of the author's prose could not be greater. Where Melville could interrupt the action of Moby-Dick to supply the reader with treatises on the history and anatomy of whales and whaling, and not risk impatience, he rarely gets through a twelve-line poem without spreading a tedium so deadly that its fumes kill flying insects...
...finishes his prayer in stone. But is it a blessed victory? Naturally not. Slowly, and then in a landslide rush, Golding undermines the reader's faith in the saintly fool. Soon Jocelin himself is wrestling with the high cost of inspiration, strung taut between the tenter hooks of divine and earthly means. He condones adultery and acquiesces in an accomplished murder to keep the master mason...
...portrait of Ford's Lee Iacocca. As it is with developing a new car in Detroit, the long process of producing this kind of major story tends to leak out, and other publications rush to get into the act. But we have full confidence in the reader's ability to differentiate between a finished design and the ones that ran into trouble in the wind tunnel...
...also immured, on the same day and in nearly identical construction, by Columnist Joseph Kaselow of the New York Herald Tribune. Eventually, the Bristol-Myers item made two afternoon Manhattan papers and flashed crosscountry to be interred in those posterior reaches of the daily press where the average reader seldom if ever ventures...
Ironically, however, what really ails the book is an excess of integrity. To work at all, a contemporary thriller must convince the reader that, beneath a thin shell of authentic background, all hell can and will break loose any minute. But Thayer is so faithful in rendering the Berlin situation of the near past that it is impossible to believe that anything more than another standoff will result from the tense confrontation between U.S. and Russian forces that he creates as climax. It is all a little like reading a cliff-hanging account of the Battle of Jutland. Instructive...