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... outlines of our history to emerge sharp and clear. Bringing together in a single volume bio graphies of the poets of the English-speaking world, and assessments of their individual works, has been a vast and worthwhile labour for Stephen Spender and Donald Hall ...

... watching the stars fade in the dawn. Mr. Lancaster is really quite magnificent his bearing is splendidly aris tocratic and he speaks his stately lines with distinction. Much of the rest of the dialogue is dubbed which (though it is excellently done) is perhaps ...

... no more than there are two new Tintin translations The Seven Crystal Balls and Prisoners of the Sun (Meth uen 8s. 6d.) and speaking as the owner of a Tin tin-maniac I only wish they would translate the new stuff a bit quicker to save me struggling with ...

... light hand with dialogue which crack! s and jj fizzes along and a pleasant taste in simii :s, as 5 when he describes a man speaking in a te.-hno- 5 crat accent compounded of Lancashire, Brixton and Marlon Brando. To say that he i out- I spoken is rather ...

... sir.' 'Then I am very willing you should go.' This brisk conversation took place in French, Voltaire claiming you couldn't speak English without putting your tongue between your teeth and all his teeth having vanished some time back. Boswell's Journal ...

... into abstraction M returned with a conviction the future of painting is ■end up with the recognizable N. But when an artist speaks of a recognizable laa=e we must not imagine he tans realism or naturalism 'be old sense. Frequently in these new Kinleys large ...