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...sometimes think that your cinema reviewer (one can't call him a critic) is desperately afraid that his ineptness at his job may escape the reader. The fact that he hates The Ugly American [April 19] and I love it is not what prompts me to take pen in hand. His snide, destructive diatribes couldn't provoke me to write in the past, and it isn't that this last piece of his has struck a new low. He has delivered himself of this caliber of filth before. It's just that...
...reader is encouraged to believe that this new novel by Nicholas (The Cruel Sea) Monsarrat is about the celebrated defection of British Diplomats Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean. It is an exemplar, say the publishers, of a series dramatizing issues "weighing upon men's minds in the mid-Twentieth Century...
Checking back on the story, the reader will realize that the things that troubled him all along about Drill-Pig are really the result of deliberate contrivance: he has been hornswoggled into believing that he is being given a fictional insight into one kind of life while actually being presented with another. Monsarrat's novelistic sleight-of-hand can be excused only as a demonstration of a conviction that the code of Communism is identical with the code of freedom, and that the philosophic claims of Western civilization are only hypocrisy. The excuse seems worse than the trick...
...murder each other with all the weapons of devotion." So says the Peter pumpkin eater of the title. He is a loosely knit English screenwriter named Jake Armitage, and the wife he has put in the pumpkin shell is the narrator-a woman who remains as nameless to the reader as she seems face less to herself...
...place underground. With endless fanfare and speeches, Farr gives up his mistress and his wife gives up the bottle; the Japanese engineer and the Chinese student get together--but only after a painfully long dissertation on tolerance and race prejudice; the Vassar girl becomes very attached to a meter-reader and undertakes his education (he's really very bright); Farr's mistress proves that she has a heart of gold. Finally, after two years--it seems longer to the reader--they are all whisked off to Australia, where a brave new world is forming, free from evils of the last...