Word: truthful
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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CLEA, by Lawrence Durrell. Last of a quartet of novels in which Durrell, one of the few real English stylists alive, examines the shifting nature of truth against the sultry background of old Alexandria and through the devious natures of the kind of odd cast of characters that only Durrell can assemble...
...CHILD BUYER, by John Hersey. Not consistently on target but full of troubling truth, this satire snaps and slashes at the antihumanist trend that sees men as tools rather than souls. The Swiftian plot concerns parents, educators and politicians who acquiesce in the actual sale of a boy genius to industry...
...country is rigged against them. Each state has two Senators--this helps the small states, of course, since their votes equal that of New York. House districts are apportioned in a manner which favors the rural vote. And, in all the state legislatures, it is a notorious truth that the cities are under-represented. Thus it is the presidential election which makes the urban population count for much in a system where it would otherwise count for little...
...your great country," and went on: "Your future is in your hands. Algeria is yours, all of you without exception. Since the Moslem community is by far the most numerous, I say it is up to you to show your sense of responsibility, your worth, your importance. In truth, it is a new life which Algeria is about to begin in liberty, equality and fraternity...
...fort. There is also some rousing prose, not all of it defensible. The book opens with: "Call Aubrey George Grant! The moment had come. My mouth felt suddenly dry. The Court was waiting and I knew the ordeal ahead of me was a long one. In telling the whole truth I might convict an innocent man . . ." The narrator testifies, dry mouth and all, for more than 300 pages about an oily Emir who wants more oil, and a berobed old Britisher with a patch over one eye and a theory that, by Allah, there is petroleum under a certain unpromising...