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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...child of five and under, she learned, does not recognize death as an irreversible fact; he sees it as a sort of sleep or a gradual or temporary state. The dead resemble the absent, in that the child does not see them. From six to nine years, most children personify death ("Carries off bad children. Catches them and takes them away"). To one child of eight, death was so real that he thought it left footprints. And to many, death is like a Halloween figure, all skeleton, or with its skeleton outside and visible...
...languidly that the audience has time to wonder about what is happening; and to wonder about this story is to realize that it is nothing more than a psychiatric nursery drama, a homosexual fantasy of guilty pleasure and pleasurable punishment. The dead hero is really no more than a sort of perverted Peter Pan, and the cannibalism itself nothing more than an aggravated case of nail-biting...
...civic affairs-one must "major in one and minor in the other, and there is no question as to which must be the major field of operation." Bishop Love also urged them not to be too popular. "You may preach a spineless, conforming-to-things-as-they-are sort of Gospel that may not cost you anything. If you do, you may please the people and have a comfortable existence, but you will not have peace of mind...
Menna Gallic's brief and beautifully written first novel of the Welsh coal fields is the sort of book that bestselling authors should be required to copy two or three times in longhand. The language has a strong, sly wit, and the story-of a troubled, strikebound village-is told with force and skill. Welsh-born Novelist Gallie is able to give her sympathy to the strikers without the posturing of protest literature, and to evoke the gamy folk flavor of her villagers without being cute or condescending...
Third Man on the Mountain. Beautifully photographed in Switzerland, James Ramsey Ullman's Banner in the Sky has become a sort of alpine Huckleberry Finn, with James MacArthur as the main piton in a juvenile adventure...