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...have been a reader of TIME for nearly 20 years and never before have I written to you about any reports, but the report on the Aldermaston March in the April 26 issue was so good that I must say thank you. How nice to read a really sane report. More power to that reporter...
...conceded to Julian Gloag, a suitably baleful-looking young (32) New Yorker, ten years out of school (at Britain's Rugby and Cambridge), who has made a memorable fable about his seven motherless moppets. He has succeeded, partly by attention to details that worry the practical reader, such as how did they get the money? Little Jiminee, a talented penman, forged endorsements on mother's mysterious but regular checks, and Hubert cashed them when he bought the groceries. Gloag's terrifying tots do more than this; they offer the reader no escape from their own zany world...
...extreme repugnance of the typical reader to Hitler is of course exploited in Russell's illustration. Yet one must separate the good effects of a belief from the goodness or evil of the entity described. During the bombing of London, few Englishmen could have applauded the existence of Hitler. If the War Office had chosen not to believe that Hitler existed, how- ever, the counter-attack against Germany would have been seriously hampered. To discover whether the effects of believing in the existence of anything are good, one must consider the consequences of disbelief. Blithe disbelief in Hitler would have...
...Reader Carnes mind his language. As Francis Bacon said: "Such dispositions are the very errors of human nature; and yet they are the fittest timber to make politics...
Many a writer might have been tempted to skulk past the cliches of early marriage. Hortense Calisher attacks head on, overruns each situation with the rush of her own peculiar eloquence. A reader can cheerfully follow David and Liz through the awe of contemplating the baby's hand, the terror of watching its first illness, the slowly emerging awareness of what shape their marriage may finally assume. And in the interplay between the generations lies a lingering dynastic question: How much do we inherit from the past; how much can we disown...