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Inside the Feb. 4 issue, there were more devices to attract the "family" reader--cartoons, a picture page, a "Current Events Classroom," a "Scrapbook" column which included Whittier's "Barbara Frietchie," recipes, and advice on how to play bridge...
...that his work differs fundamentally from editorial cartooning, which, by its concise nature, must deal with names, events, and formalized political positions. In his extended dialogues, Feiffer can instead explore social attitudes and reactions without relying on names and ready-made categories to summarize an issue. The Globe reader who glances at Feiffer's strip before moving on to Terry and the Pirates, can't mutter, "He's against Dodd, the son-of-a-bitch...
When first published in 1947, as Cefalû, it attracted little attention. It suffers somewhat from the fact that Durrell had not yet asserted his independence from such models as Aldous Huxley, and from an excessive urge to moralize. But Durrell is already demonstrating his ability to make the reader care intensely for his characters, even for those-and this is true mastery-that are thoroughly unlikable. Already he can evoke a subtle kind of suspense in which the reader wonders not merely "What will become of so-and-so?" but also "What will he become?" For the action, ultimately...
Author Kesey, 26, who worked as a nursing assistant in the mental wards of two California hospitals while he was writing his novel, has used his empathy with the Insider's view of the Outsider's world to tilt the reader's comfortable assumption about the nice normalities, has made his book a roar of protest against middlebrow society's Rules and the invisible Rulers who enforce them. But Kesey's lunatics and his story are full of gaiety too-including a wild ward party complete with wine, women and song. As the Chief says...
...book flirts fashionably with incest and inversion (Cass has a curiously susceptible lady psychiatrist); the style is full of mannerisms and cultural snobberies, e.g., people are not openmouthed but bouche-bée. And how is the reader to care about a heroine who says, "Just give me the coup de grace and then have the gráce to leave graciously...