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...English-language paper in Greece, the Athens News, for identifying Welch and eight other embassy employees as CIA operatives in an anti-CIA article published November 25. The article included even home addresses and telephone numbers. Welch, it said, "lives at No. 5 Queen Frederica in Psychico. The reader can telephone him for his comments on these accusations at 671-2055." The Athens News, an anti-American journal, may have indirectly got its lead about Welch from Counterspy, the quarterly newsletter of a Washington-based outfit called the Fifth Estate, whose purpose is to expose covert American intelligence activities. Among...
...Saskatchewan provincial government to take over the potash industry, much of which is owned by subsidiaries of American firms. In response to reporters' questions, he also noted that relations had not been helped by a new tax bill that, once enacted, would force both TIME and the Reader's Digest to stop publishing separate Canadian editions. The bill would require that both magazines have an 80% difference in editorial content from their parent U.S. editions (TIME...
...Evelyn Waugh on the other), Shaw and Greene are bonded in contemporary let ters by their ability to create a bestseller with moral resonance. "Given half the chance," says this delightful romp, "every man becomes a hero." Nightwork has no more serious point to make - except to remind the reader that he can go home again. That, happily, is just what Irwin Shaw now intends to do, 24 years after he journeyed to Europe and decided to stay...
Their solitary thoughts form separate sections that are strung together like so many pieces of reality, doing away with chapters or divisions based primarily on action. Drabble succeeds with this difficult method, and she needn't intrude, as she occasionally does, to inform the reader of what she is doing or to comment on a character. Frances and the other characters stand on their own: they don't need any explanation...
Something else does, though, and that is the affair between Frances and Karel. They take it for granted, and the reader is forced to as well, because there seems to be little reason for and even less development in this love. But the unreal quality of their relationship in no way makes either of them less believable. Like the interfering omniscient narrator, this flaw is superfluous and can be ignored without damage to the novel as a whole. As she continues to widen her scope and refine her technique, Drabble will probably take care of these imperfections next time around...