... being shut away with someone in the thick of a nervous collapse, which is indeed what the whole thing is about. Characters speak fluently, indeed non-stop, but obliquely, twistedly, under great pres sure and often apparently at random. There is a good ...

... Portugal almost no English is spoken. What Our oldest allies? And then I tried to remember one person I knew just one who could speak Portu guese. But it is a delightful book. First in the list of novels this week, for more reasons than one, is Miss Margery ...

... joking about his own affliction in his Portrait of the painter as a deaf man (No. 30) is saying sharply, Eh? What d'you say? Speak up, man. And in his last self-portrait, The artist in old age (No. 31) he is asking, Good heavens, is that really me?. Then ...

... take. Mr. Ray Walston gives a somewhat unnerving per formance as a small eccentric con, and among the guest stars who pop in, speak their little piece and vanish again, you will spot Messrs. Sammy Davis, Jr. Rod Steiger, Broderick Crawford and Vincent Price ...

... medium. After the criticism of inaudibility in his first two productions he has made sure this time that his cast stand up and speak up. And he has realized that there is no necessity to keep the characters constantly on the move (although he, as Astrov the ...

... The Snow Queen speaks ■1WM1B MISS MARY MCCARTHY IS A FORMIDABLE LADY who has written novels, criticism, the memoirs of her girlhood, a certain amount of coldly alarming journalism, and, most unexpectedly, a book on Venice, a city with an appeal too lush ...

... socialism. Such a fellow can turn the world inside out. All this is mixed with Goebbels' going on and on about his journeys to speak at meetings, his love-life, his endless pessi mism about bestial man. The book ends with Goebbels appointed to the Berlin district ...

... As a gypsy, the writer's viewpoint is not only different from other people's: it starts from a different place. Thus, she speaks of a midwinter arrival in Manhattan not in terms of people or buildings, but giving an impression of winds and water systems ...

... point in my development is a typical statement; dead true, without a doubt, but few youngish memoir-writers have the nerve to speak of their development in quite such a firm, ringing, convinced sort of voice. There's a chapter on Mr. Wain's prewar childhood ...

... right, Billy Budd is con demned to death but as he is standing on the deck with the noose around his neck an ancient mariner speaks up to reveal that the boy is too important a guy to swing. He is not, as everybody thinks, a bastard from Bristol he is the ...

... It is, rather, a plea for the painting to be allowed first to speak for itself in somewhat the same way as (if I have understood him correctly) Bertolt Brecht always hoped that he might speak through his actors to his audience, an ideal audience with hearts ...

... put into book form a series of addresses made while he was Indian Ambassador in Washington. Under the title AN AMBASSADOR SPEAKS (Asia Publishing House. 25s.), these speeches are mainly informed explanations of India's structure and policies for American ...