... cook once said, we have come into a world where everything is made of chocolate, ham, curry-powder and salmon! The man was speaking of Petra, the rose-red city, half as old as time, enticingly re-described in Portrait of a Desert by Guy Mountford (Collins ...

... We are always in deeper than we expect, writes V. S. Prit chett, in The Working Novel ist (Chatto & Windus 21s.). He is speaking of Alfred de Vigny, but it is equally true of himself. There is not one of these New Statesman papers here (whether Pritchett ...

... I Speaking as a non-Zen Buddhist Robert Wraight To tell a serious artist that his work is very tasteful is just about the most damning thing you can say these days and I shall therefore refrain from saying it about the exhibition of paintings by Luigi ...

... without being too brutalized. The chief protagonists are Virginia, a widowed Australian archae ologist, and Dursun, an English speaking Kurd with whom she falls in love. Dursun is a dedi cated political type. The tale ends with earthquake and other tragic ...

... the Continent. I specially value a glimpse of Stalin in 1943: He has that disconcert ing habit of not looking at one as he speaks or shakes hands. A meeting with him would be in all respects a creepy, even a sinister experience if it weren't for his readiness ...

... state. When 32-year-old Marion Wilson says: It is working hard that makes me feel happier than anything else,' she evidently speaks the truth. Most widely known for her greeting card designs for the Gordon Frase: Gallery, she also does graphic design work ...

... began to swallow the Maclnnes theory that one does not so much look at a painting by Thelma Hulbert as enter into it, so to speak, and look about one. But when the show was over I forgot about them-- till this month when her exhibition, mainly of recent ...

... fragile-looking Dutchman (Tom Courtenay) a suave Eng lishman (Jeremy Kemp) and a self-confident American (George Peppard), all speaking immaculate German. While still in Holland Mr. Courtenay is nabbed and shot as a spy by the German police and Mr. Peppard ...

... and much needed rhythmic vigour to the music. But I wish somebody could have supervised the Italian sung by this English- speaking cast. The Italian word sacerdotal (it means the same as in English) is sung on one occasion with great con viction as s ...

... such power notably the opening words of God (a sextet of soloists in the orches tra pit, eerily overlapped by a sextet of speaking voices), the quiet double fugue with which the second act opens, and the dialogues between Moses and his brother (speech ...

... that is bursting to be released but the kind that lies locked up in a mountain, the kind of con tained power that makes us speak of the serenity of Nature. Nature may have other, uglier sides but Moore plumps for this good, reassuring side and equates ...

... and Foot (Macdonald 75s.) and though I think the account may enshrine some very doubtful early regimental history, not to speak of one or two illustra tions that are too jejune to merit their place, this is an instructive work about a splen did subject ...