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Down and Out has the engaging quality of utter candor. Most depression stories make dull reading today, but Orwell's has a mint freshness because his poverty, his sorry work mates, even the brain-deadening duties of his distasteful job were of vast interest to him. When the scene shifts to England, he is just as intently curious about flophouses, tramp argot and the personal histories of his down-and-out pals. There is the concern for the underdog and the compassion without sentimentality that soon became Orwell trademarks...
...Asia policy?' And it seems to me that that discloses such a depth of ignorance that it is very hard to begin to deal with it. The peoples of Asia are so incredibly diverse and their problems are so incredibly diverse that how could anyone, even the most utter charlatan, believe that he had a uniform policy which would deal with all of them...
...Asia, the U.S. State Department last month sent Ambassador-at-Large Philip C. Jessup to the Far East in the hope that he might pick up some ideas for a positive policy-or at least a positive statement. Last week in Seoul, Jessup found that the best he could utter was a strong negative. Nettled at Korean criticism of U.S. negativism, Jessup responded by taking the Koreans to task for failing to achieve certain U.S.-sponsored reforms, e.g., the stabilization of Korea's tottering monetary system. Said he: "The problems of the Far East certainly will not be settled...
Clutterbuck suffers acutely at times from deckchair gabble and shipboard sameness. Yet it is very often - particularly during an act spent ashore - both effervescent and funny. It boasts such small ingenuities as having Clutterbuck never utter a word; such larger achievements as making Mrs. Clutterbuck a fine blend of sappiness and wisdom. The show is the better, too, for good ensemble acting and-in Norris Houghton-a director who knows that with any soufflé it is timing that counts most...
...been misled by the title. Mr. Schlesinger, Jr. is a radical democrat and said so at the forum; he is a member of the non-Communist Left, not a Doughface progressive. Your story also said that Mr. Hughes would "discuss Schlesinger's work from the liberal side." This shows utter terminological confusion on the part of your reporter...