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...Self-Destruction. Shirley Watkins, 59, wife of a Lancaster, Pa. newspaper publisher and herself a onetime reporter, has a newsman's respect for history-even a shadowy saga of 30 centuries ago. In 14 years of patient writing (this is her third novel in 28 years), she has constructed her oppressive story with fidelity and compelling logic. The strength of the book lies in her imaginative but firm characterization of the soldiers, seers and courtiers who were enmeshed in Saul's downfall. But above them all towers brooding Saul, a complex, courageous, often noble man, whose tragic flaw...
David McDonald is a big (6 ft. 2 in. 220 Ibs.) man and true, who eats his buffalo liver raw and sometimes wonders whether he is a man or a moose. In the 23rd book of his long and musky career, saga-gaga Novelist Vardis Fisher (Testament of Man, seven volumes so far, five to come) surrounds David & Co. with tons of Indians-bucks, squaws, half-breeds-plus prairies full of buffalo meat, oceans of rum, and a plot made of walrus blubber. David is a deep thinker, but on somewhat specialized lines; he broods mostly on pemmican and squaws...
Died. Ada Galsworthy, 89, widow of Britain's Nobel Prizewinning Author John Galsworthy, desultory travel writer (Over the Hills and Far Away) and model for Irene in Galsworthy's monumental trilogy The Forsyte Saga; in London...
...young native sage holds forth, in the other it is an engaging young native duffer. But the difference between the two plays' titles helps explain their enormous eventual difference in tone. Mister Johnson is really, from beginning to end, the portrait of a happy-go-unlucky man, the saga of a culturally displaced person. A comedy of miscomprehension that explodes into sudden tragedy, it is all the sadder for involving no villains, no clash of good and evil, or even of conscious right and wrong...
Despite the tale's complexities, the characters are simple, except for Danny Kaye. Glynis Johns, is also a veteran of the Walt Disney-type saga of the Middle Ages, has by now learned how to be a comely wench in the best neo-medieval style. The most slippery of the courtiers, Ravenhurst, is played by Basil Rathbone who duels once and sneers and stands around. The rest of the people mostly stand around while Danny Kaye does things. He is good at doing things because he is bewitched most of the time, therefore bold, daring, and resourceful...