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Sirs: Further note on the "Earthquake McGoon" saga: One evening in Cholon, Indo-China, I was being introduced by Earthquake to his favorite Szechwanese food. With his Chinese plane crew about him ... he told us about his capture by Chinese Communists in West China after his plane was downed. His captors were putting him through a long forced march to their head quarters. In the course of time Earthquake, much better at flying than walking, became so tired that he sat down on the ground, and all efforts to get him to resume the trek were of no avail. Threatened...
...horrible object to the bottom of the garden, dug a large hole, buried it, and then returned to wash his hands carefully and dust his knees with a handkerchief scented with a few drops of eau de Cologne." The same method may be detected, of course, in The Forsyte Saga...
...Ludus Iocusque ubique vigescunt. Tempestas nobis arridet. O ver Plautinum! O collegium Harvardianum, nuper modestum morum bonorum praesidium, nunc vividum alacris motus gymnasium! Cavete igitur vos decani decanulique--"non intret Cato theatrum meum"--nec non vos, o septum novi homines qui ad spinosam Lapparum tutelam elevati estis. Quae enim saga Radcliffiensis, quis magus Harvardianus pollenti pectore nunc praesentire potest quam mira et magna Plautus et Bacchus et fervidus ille puer et solutis Gratiae zonis in campo et area nostria iamiam effecturi sint? Nam hac in fabula Plautina est quidam filius qui scortillum venustum perdite amat; est fili pater, decrepitus senex...
Sphinx with a Monocle. The saga of the German army in politics from 1918 to 1945 is the story Oxford Historian John W. Wheeler-Bennett tells in The Nemesis of Power. When it was published in London last month, British critics bravoed. Proclaimed the Observer: "The most important book on Germany published since the war." Said the Sunday Times: "In all the literature about the Weimar Republic and the Nazis, there has been nothing like it." Grand in scope, minute in documentation (829 pages), Nemesis of Power may not get the U.S. readers it deserves, but it will hold those...
...Studs, he has since lavished double the affection, energy and space (present count: 5 vols., 2,529 pp.) on Danny O'Neill, a sensitive, spectacled youngster growing up in the same South Side slums as Studs and James Farrell himself. Earlier novels in the O'Neill saga, e.g., A World I Never Made, My Days of Anger, found young Danny seething with frustrations and a rage to leave the poor, brawl-bitten shanty Irish world of the O'Neills who bore him and the O'Flahertys who brought him up. In The Face of Time, Danny...