... Africa Speaks By V. S. Pritchett NOBODY cares much, or even knows, what happens to us down here behind God's back, said a settler in Tanganyika, and so gave a title to Mr. Negley Farson, the itinerant American transgressor. Behind God's Back (Gollancz; ...

... do you think Speaking as a Party member, Preminger said. I approve of your brother's attitude, Charley. Nuts, Charley said. Speaking as a man, Charley, Preminger went on. Please put Lueger on his back for at least six months. Speaking as a man that ...

... Churchill in action, but of those three only the powerful figure of Stalin remained to over shadow the latter Conferences. SPEAKING FRANKLY (Heinemann. 21s.) is Mr. Byrnes's personal record of those Conferences and of his period of office as Secretary of ...

... America of a brother and sister which ends in a sudden piece of shrieking melodrama. Over-written or isn't it over writing to speak of a road being devoured by the car like an endless red noodle ...

... strength (Torch). Atom bomb explodes play fizzles. humpty dumpty (Casino).- All the King's horses and all the King's men not to speak of Vic Oliver and Richard Hearne. babes in the wood (Princes). Monsewer Eddie Gray in charge. Cinderella (Palladium). Plus ...

... I can only describe as a damned good story about them. Her main characters are roughly speaking the children of a great singer and his dancer wife. Roughly speaking because Niall had another father and Maria another mother, so that the gentle and unselfish ...

... of Delft, the great jurist MR. CHURCHILL PROCLAIMS HIS FAITH IN A UNITED STATES OF EUROPE Britain's wartime Prime Minister speaking at London's Guildhall after receiving the Grotius Medal. The Lord Mayor presided, and among those who took part in it were ...

... Manchester than of Minehead. Mr. Evans may be taciturn, with no accent at all, for the only language he speaks is Welsh, and not even his wife speaks that. But lovers on a first night are no more particular than playgoers. All is suffused by the golden ...

... it (Islanders). This book is written exclusively for this latter group. I agree with his premise, but not his conclusion. Speaking as a born and confirmed Channel Tunneller, who has never sailed a boat except straight into the reeds of a Norfolk Broad ...

... friends. The guest batsman from London, so to speak, was Mr. Ernest Thesiger, who scored a century as Malvolio. Not only was he in good form, but suited the team to a T. Cunningly placed in the slips (still so to speak) were three experts of the Dolmetch school ...

... nationals concerned, all of whom, for obvious reasons, must speak a common language we can understand. But once these preliminaries are settled, it is up and away, hell for leather, narratively speaking, with comedy jostling tragedy, brutal threats coun tered ...

... set of records has been produced, under the auspices of the British Council, by His Master's Voice of the poet T. S. Eliot speaking his F our Quartets. I have been told that nowadays people do not listen to the spoken word, that they are not interested ...