davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star., 1960-06-19

we have condemned or would
gorously condemn in
Russia, this is certainly not
to say we that bear the slight
est resemblance to Russia in
the more serious aspect of
her conduct, her use of tyr
amy, oppression, murder and
other acts of barbarism for
which she stands justly con-
demned in the eyes of the
world. Our claim to moral
leadership of the world, how
ever, we must rest not mere
ly on a negative avoidance
Of barbaritieS, but on a sim
cere and positive attempt to
to adhere to the high Chris
tian principles which we our
selves proclaim as our ma
tional policy"
Different Concepts
The author never quite
explains how two countries
with such different concepts
of national morality can ever
understand each other. If
this is a flaw in his thesis,
there is much logic in mis-
argument for compromises,
concessions and forbearance
on both sides, assuming
Russia, realizing the impos-
sibility of total war today,
will go along.
Mr.. Perla's book rates wide
reading. 1t is an extremely
able statement of his posi-
ton.
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them down the road as an
April Fools joke for his young
children. He recites all of
"Lycidas" alone on the sum-
nit of Mount Lafayette. A
hard-working young father
with a growing brood, he
tries heavy drinking just to
see if it will help his verse.
1t doesn't. He is married
and a father before he was
81 and has only the scantest
financial prospects. In the
10 years before his first book
was published in 1918 he had
printed only IA poems in all.
At 80. he's made a major
living farming and teaching
in Vermont and New Hamp-
shire. Certainly there was no
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develops effectively every
dilemma inherent in the awk-
ward exchange.
%%
THE CADAVAR OF GID
EON WICK by Alexander
Laing (The Macmillan Co.,
$2.95, Murder Revisited
Series). Just the thing for
readers bored with the mod
ern, fear-free mystery is this
tale Of a medical school pro-
fessor who demonstrates his
ability to turn feotuses into
monsters before some one
transfers him into a corpse.
Shamelessly designed to
make readers accutely un-
comfortable, Mr.. Lain's hor-
ror story brilliantly succeeds.
1t was published originally in
1884. -,
4 y
THE MOUNTEBANK'S
TALE, by Michael Redgrave.
Harper and Bros; $3.001
Double talent is somehow
disconcerting. and Sir Mich
ael, the accomplished actor,
clearly disconcerts by writing
a book that is accomplished,
too. The simple, short. beau
tifully told story revolves
around the secret in the life
Of a famous acting actor.
Evening star., 1960-06-19

East and Russia in, would we
consider it fair that we have
no part in Middle Eastern
affairs?"
Russian Bases
Lest he be misunderstood
he was speaking theoret-
cally-he adds that mo one
in his right mind would sug-
geSt that Russia should have
missile bases in South Amer
ica because we have such
bases close to Russia's bor-
ders. Better a double stand
ard in such cases than sim
gle annihilation. But our
choice need not be between
never having a double stand
ard and practically always
having a double standard"
And we need not, Mr.. Perla
points out, be too SNUG about
our history. I'VE forced the
blessings of liberty on the
Philippines by putting down
their inSurrection. 1t would
be hard to defend our treat
ment of the American Indian
in any terms other than those
of might make right" And
he adds:
First Line Of Defense
I'VE insist that our first
line of defense is in South
Korea. Japan and Formosa.
But what would we say if
Russia asserted that its first
line of defense was Brazil,
Peru and Honduras? We
dropped the atom bomb on
Hiroshima and NagaSaki.
What would have been our
reaction if Japan had done
the same thing to Spokane
and San Francisco?"
But Mr.. Perla goes on to
say: while we ourselves have
been guilty of many things
Evening star., 1960-06-19
Other Books of the Week in Brief

rather than narrow, null
tiple rather than single.
BACK AWAY FROM THE
STOVE. BY Sim Wenner.
Doubleday, $685. The
story of a young mother
who is general manager of
Baby Formulas, Inc.
GUIDE TO MODERN HOB
BIES, ARTS AND CRAFTS.
BY Bill Newgold. mckay,
$4.50.D Author is director
of the Colony Arts Center,
Woodstock, N. Y, and
author of the weekly COL
umn. "Other Peoples Lei
sure"
1900 RUSSIAN PROVERBS.
Collected and translated by
I. Langnas. Philosophical,
S2.75.)
MAYA CITIES. BY Paul
Rivet. Putnam, $685.
Ancient cities and temples
series.
Evening star., 1960-06-19
In Pursuit
AND BEAT HIM WHEN

E. AND BEAT HIM WHEN
HE SNEEZES. BY Stanley
and Janice Berenstein.
(McGraw-Hill; $2.95.)
This guide to happy preg-
nancy, delightful infancy
and hilarious child develop
ment." by the noted car
toonists Berenstein. is ideal
for the second-time-around
Cor more)' parents-particu-
larly mothers. Only they can
be stole enough not to vince
at the telling drawings and
captions in this delightful
spool of books on pregnancy
and child care. M. p.
Evening star., 1960-06-19
Robert Frost, Poet and Patriot,
Potent Figure in American Letters
ROBERT FROST: The Trial

ROBERT FROST: The Trial
by Existence. BY Elizabeth
Shepley Sergeant. (Holt,
Rinehart & Winston, Inc.
So
The author of this book
observes that one must look
back to the Golden Age of
New England to find such a
loved and potent figure in
American letters as Robert
Frost. She has written this
book in friendship and ad-
miration, but it is none the
less a very valuable book. She
has collected all the facts
about FroSt's life, has quoted
letters and family documents
and from talks with him and
with other friends. Thus we
have a book which is in the
tradition of the family
memoir although, of course,
Mr.. Frost is still very much
alive.
The most appealing part of
the book covers the struggle
in the early years of the
young New England poet.
His Simple COmplexity
We meet him, a tall, hand
some, strapping man, with
a simple straightforward ap-
proach and yet a complex
man too. He ploughs the hard
New England fields by day.
walks its lonely roads by
night.
Il have been one acquainted
with the night.
I have walked out in rain
and back in rain.
I have outwalked the furth-
est city light"
He stops to gaze into deep
dark woods covered with
snow. He makes spring
flowers of paper and puts
Evening star., 1960-06-19
Within the Holy See
And Its Surroundings

INSIDE THE VATICAN, by
Corrado Pallenberg (Haw-
thorn; $495) gives a great
deal Of information about
the Holy See and its sur
roundings, some Of 1t un-
familiar.
OF general interest is the
authors discussion of the
church and marriage. In view
of the growing movement in
Italy to establish divorce and
"the imposing growth in the
number of legal separations"
it has been wondered whether
the church would review it's
position concerning the in
diSSolubility of matrimony. An
auditor of the Rota told the
author this had not even been
considered, adding: THE
church has weathered many
other storms in the past.
Rome preferred to lose all
England rather than yield to
the request of Henry VIII,
who asked that his marriage
be annulled."
While the Sacra Rota ad-
judges without fee "deServ-
ing" cases of persons unable
to pay, it is generally the
wealthy who bother to carry
their petitions to the supreme
court Of the Vatican. How
ever, Mr.. Pallenberg adds,
"it must not be assumed that
one has only to pay out
enough money and an annul-
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hint of the literary stamina
that makes him still produc-
tive today at 86.
Recognition, coming late.
was also slow. 1t came first
in England. as is well known,
and was due in a large part
to the efforts of Ezra Pound.
There was too much differ
ence between the two men
and their friendship didn't
last. It was, however, Frost
who first began to have
doubts. Pound took a 50-word
poem of Frost's and short
ened it to 48 words. you've
spoiled my meter, my idiom
and my idea" wrote Frost.
He was always grateful to
Pound for his first encour-
agement and was able to re-
pay the debt in a very prac-
tical way many years later
when he used the prestige of
his name to petition for
Pounds release from st.
Elizabeths Hospital.
The lonely young poet
turned more and more to
the world. After his return
from England and the pub
lication of his books, he
enjoyed the society of other
writer's. He continued a
teaching career that has
spanned the incredible num-
ber of 65 years. mostly at
Amherst College and the
University of Michigan. He
had the consuming involve
ments of a large family, one
often beset by trouble. He
went about the country read
ing his poems and lecturing.
He received all the formal
honors which our colleges
and even the Senate could
bestow upon the poet. And
now he is an elder states
man Of the literary world.
Where Bernard Baruch tells
us about the financial aspects
Of our economy, Mr.. Frost
tells us about our souls:
I'D hesitate to abolish
poverty myself. Too much
good has come of it. If it's
going to be abolished, let
Mrs. Roosevelt do it."
Or:
Randall farrell thinks
poets aren't helped enough.
But I say poetry has al
ways lived on a good deal
Of neglect.
THE seven cities claimed
Homer dead. Homer in his
life was probably eating
under the table"
Mr.. Frost always has been
a traditionalist in poetry.
Writing blank verse is like
playing tennis without a
net" he has said. He has
gone his quiet way creating
beauty in the harsh tragedies
of common folk, told in
common speech. There is no
American poet today who
had greater success and rec
ognition or who has greater
appeal. Mrs. Shepley has
captured him well in this
lively, conversational book.
EDWIN TREBLE.
Evening star., 1960-06-19
Authorof'TheC Cardinal
Does Fine New Novel
WATER OF LIFE. BY Henry
Morton Robinson. (SimOn
and SchuSter. S5 5Q51

WATER OF LIFE. BY Henry
Morton Robinson. (SimOn
and Schuster; S5.95.)
The author of the fabu-
lousy successful novel, THE
Cardinal" offers a new novel,
the story of three generations
Of a family Of Continnati
distillers.
The saga starts with Anson
Woodruff, who was a farmer
in Southern Indiana, but a
man Of unusual proportion.
physically: mentally, a man
Of magnetism and charm. He
had gone to the Philadelphia
centennial exposition of 1875
as captain of a company of
militia when he met Zarah,
daughter Of a Harvard pro-
fessor. They quickly fell in
love and married. despite the
implacable opposition of the
girls father. They went to
the farm in Indiana, where
Zarah. brought up to luxury
and gentle arts, discovered
the hard life of a farmers
wife. She accepted her new
role stoically, at least for a
time.
Eventually the Woodhulls
and their children moved to
Continnati. At a time when
corn, the staple crop, brought
almost nothing, Anson had
found he could make money,
Evening star., 1960-06-19
Two CoIorfuI Heroes
Of the Civil War

erner, the author manages to
keep an eye on objectivity
without hiding his admira-
ton for this man who be-
came the grand wizard of
the Ku Klux Klan in the Re-
construction era. and who
said as the Confedaracy COL
lapsed that if one road led
to Mexico and the other to
He'll, he didn't care which
he took,
Evening star., 1960-06-19
Nancy Milford Writes
OF Her Childhood Doys
DAUGHTERS AND REBELS.
BY essica Milford.
NHoughton Miff1in; $4.)

Nancy Mitford's The Pur-
suit of Love" was the heady
fiction. Her sisters "Daugh-
ters and Rebels" Is the grim
mer fact of 5hei. childhood.
Where Nancy sought to re-
produce in all its mad gayety
and interminable pictur-
esqueness life in the manor
at Swinbrook, Jessica, with
something of bitterness, re-
counts its restrictions and
boredom. Life with father,
whom Nancy made a tre-
mendous character in her
books, but whom Jessica sees
as a tyrant, had its trying
moments. Almost from the
first, Jessica, whose dream it
was to go to school with other
children, began a running
away fund.
All of the seven wished to
escape home with it's fear
full scenes and hideously en-
tangled loyalties as soon as
possible. Sisters Unity and
Diana became fascists. Jes-
sica fell in love with her left
wing distant cousin, Esmond
Romilly, a nephew of Church.
ills. In addition to the usual
riots over domestic matters,
the girls fought the battle
of the swastika versus the
hammer. and sickle through
the years when other girls
Evening star., 1960-06-19

SAINT-EXUPERY" by Mar
eel Migeo, (McGraw-Hill;
$3.50.
M. Migeo is a friend and
partisan Of Saint-Ex, but a
fair biographer for all of
that. He portrays the spoiled
child who beat his sisters
when they would not listen
to his poems, the importunate
young man who continually
bounded his widowed aristo-
cratic mother for money
when he was a student.
Blazing Air-TraiIs
The most fascinating chap
ters Of all relate to Saint
EX's monk like devotion to
flight in the days following
World War I when the pio-
neers were blazing air-mail
routes over Europe and
Africa, without radios,
weather reports or instru-
ments. To add to the built
in perils of his profession,
Saint-Ex was almost fatally
absent-minded. 1T is hard
to separate the pilot and the
writer in him." writes M.
Migeo. THE substance of
his work, its richness and
power, derive from his meter
as flyer. 1t was a craft he
loved and gave himself
wholly, but he did not excel
in it"
Nonetheless. Saint-Exupery
participated in all the danger
and adventure of that haz-
ardous era in aviation,
crashed in the desert, took
his chances in the jungles of
South America. Even when
overage in World War II.
and regarded as suspect by
the GaullistS, he insisted on
action and was lost in a mis-
sion over Italy.
Won Immortality
1t was as a writer that
Saint-Ex achieved immortal
Evening star., 1960-06-19
CAN WE END THE COLD
WAR? BY Leo Perla. Mac
milan; $4.500

CAN WE END THE COLD
WAR? BY Leo Perla. Mac
milan; $4.500
In this timely and provoc-
ative book. Mr.. Perla re-
marks. among many other
pungent comments:
"UnleaShing a thermonu-
clear war in the hope of
neutralizing a small threat
would be like committing
suicide to avoid the remote
possibility of death"
Mr.. Perla's conclusions will
stir controversy, in some in
stances violent dissent, but
they deserve to be considered
carefully in these times.
Dignity and Freedom
The author is neither an
extremist nor a visionary. He
does not want us to disarm
or to propitiate Russia at the
expense Of our ideals or way
of life. He has no liking for
the Soviet government and
he realizes fully it's cynical
disregard for past obliga-
tionS and for the dignity and
freedom of man.
He simply feels that the
possibility of a nuclear war
is enough to force us to
consider concessions and
compromises we might not
have dreamed of in the past.
And we need not, he thinks,
throw away any of our SOW
ereinty or liberty in meeting
Russia halfway.
More basic in Mr.. Perla's
argument is his contention
that we should try, for once
in history, to apply the same
sort Of international moral
ity we expect in the individ-
ual. This double standard
of morality has brought the
world to the brink of destruc-
ton. And he is not una
ware that America has
maintained certain national
ideals-Such as wanting no
territory and always urging
freedom Of the individual.
But in practical diplomacy
we have not been so forth
right as our official policy
might indicate, he contends.
How About Cuba
Would we," he asks, "ac-
cept the idea of Russian mis-
sile bases in South America
If it were possible for Rus
sia to build them there?
IF we were in RusSia's po-
sition, with the devastation
wrought to that country by
Germany in World War II.
would we accept a reunited
Germany in military alli-
ance with NATO?
IF the roles were reversed
and we are out of the Middle
Evening star., 1960-06-19
CRIME AND MYSTERY
By BETTY MILES
Star stan Writer

Mind over matter is the
theme of an unusual mys-
terry showing how different
we all would be if we had a
chance to change bodies dur
ing our lifetime. In A
CHANGE OF MIND by G. M.
Glaskin. Doubleday and Co..
$3.95), middle-aged account
ant Edward Henderson and
handsome young Roger Ban
non find their mutual envy
has brought such a transfer
about. At first appalled,,
Henderson comes to dread
a return as his life and out
look are transformed by
keener senses in a more
vigorous body. Mr.. Glaskin
Evening star., 1960-06-19
PAPER BACKS

JACKSONIAN PERSUA-
SION, POLITICS AND BE-
LIEF. BY Marvin Meyers.
Vintage, $3.50 Reprint.
Study of Jacksonian democ-
racy and the art Of ana
Lying political communica-
tionS.
THE NEON WILDERNESS.
BY Nelson Algren. chill
81 Wang, $1.45J Reprint
for the American Century
Series.
DIONYSUS IN PARIS. BY
Wallace Fowlie. (Meridan,
$1.45) Guide to contem-
porary French theater.
THE CHURCH TODAY. BY
J. w. C. Wand. penguin,
$3.50 Brief description Of
the Christian Church in its
external variety and its
inner unity.
Evening star., 1960-06-19
The Problems
Of d Family
In France
WE ARE THE MAKERS OF

WE AhE NE WANEhS Ot
DREAMS. BY William
Blake. (Simon & SchuSter.
$4.95O
On the day this novel
opens, Ivar Kreuger, the
Swedish match king. COM
mitted suicide, and a gloomy
Frenchman expressed the
wish that all the flnanciers
Of the world would go and
do likewise. Seeds of decay
had taken root in France, the
twin dangers of faScism and
communism were spreading
and the press regularly pre-
dicted war each week end.
In those troubled times,
Rene Joliet. a young Partisan
bookbinder. married Antoi-
nette Danglade, the mother
Of an illegitimate son
fathered by a White Rus
sian. The mother was ir-
nationally devoted to the boy,
Jacques. But he was an Of
f1ciouS youth, already indoc-
trinated in naziiSm, a creed
repulSive to his mothers new
husband. The early crackup
Of the marriage only con-
fronted the principals with
new problems.
Troubled Times
The fate of these three is
sometimes obscured by the
sweep of events through the
pages Of I'VE Are the Makers
Of Dreams. Author William
Blake, a native Philadelphian
who has lived abroad for
years, spins his characters
frequently from Paris to Lon
don to Barcelona to New York
and back to Paris. With fine
Gallo urbanity, wives are
Tilted and husbands cuck-
olded. Agents and double
agents plot assaSsinations
and designations. The native
character of a half dozen
nations comes under analysis,
and the weaknesses of capi-
talism, communism and fas-
cism are thoroughly dis
cuSsed.
JOSEPH O'KEEFE.
Evening star., 1960-06-19

ment is certain. Auditors of
the Sacra Rota are all prel-
ates of uncommon honorable
ity and rectitude and they
certainly cannot be bribed."
The author is Rome cor
respondent for the London
Evening News.-C. B. J.
Evening star., 1960-06-19

are concerned with books and
boys.
Eventually Jessica got to
use her running-away money.
She and Esmond suitably
eloped to Spain, where he
had fought for the Loyalists.
Esmond died in the war, and
the story ends there.
Miss Milford writes well.
Her story doesn't read as
ripplingly as her sisters, but
it's probably much nearer the
way it was in a stately home
Of England surrounded by
eccentrics and fanatics.
M. MEG.
Evening star., 1960-06-19

big money, by turning it into
whisky. Thus he started a
distilling dynasty.
Water of Life" is in the
literary mode, very long and
detailed. There are few short
novels anymore. And yet,
such is Mr.. RobinSon's skill
and gusto. that his king
sized novel is continuously
absorbing. The characters are
clear and the many dramatic
moments are deftly built up
and tensely brought off.
&C r !
Evening star., 1960-06-19
Frontier Days
BUCKSKIN BARONET. BY
Margaret Widdemer. Dou-
bleday; $685.

Margaret Widdemer. Dou-
bleday; $685.
Although the chief char
acterS in this pre-Revolu-
tionary story are f1ctional,
Sir William johnson who
curbed the Indians, the Eng
lish courtiers, the Hutchin-
sons and the Adamses are all
real enough. Most of those
in the Mohawk and Ohio
country didn't want the war
to come-probably less than
10 per cent of the people of
the Colonies wanted war.
This story about the wilds
in 1773 is an exciting success
sor to the authors earlier
novels. H. A. LYON
Evening star., 1960-06-19
PILoT-WRiTER's OWN STORY
Life of 'Soint-Ex
Filled With Dorino
BY MARY McGRORY
Star STAFF Writer

Antoine de Saint-Exupery is Of the type of another
exceptional 20thcentury Frenchman Andre Malraux While
SantEx he called lacked the political passion Of
Maraux he combined the gift for writing and scholar
ship with life of derringdo The Typewriter the sub
iect Of fl-scale biography called "THE STORY OE
Evening star., 1960-06-19
FICTION
EIGHT KEYS TO EDEN. 3

EIGHT KEYS TO EDEN. BY
Mark Clifton. Doubleday,
$2.95.) Science Fiction.
A STONE FROM THE
BROOK. BY Robert Green
wood. (Appleton-C Century
Crofts, $4.95.) A story of
the Yorkshire country in
which the passing ways of
old England still live on,
side by side with the new.
CRISIS IN THE CATS
KILLS. BY Mary Bogardus.
Vantage, $685. The story
of the anti-rent war of
1844-45.
GENERAL
EVOLUTION ABOVE THE
SPECIES LEVEL. BY Ber-
nard Rensch. columbia,
$l0) Presents a case for
evolution as a process wide
Evening star., 1960-06-19
PATRIOTISM
American Foreign Policy
Under Close Examination

BY CARTER BROOKE JONES
Star Book Critic
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1960-02-25
Northern Southern
Will Meet Tonight

The second of the two basketball
games between the Southern High
landers and the Northern Huskies
will be played this evening on the
Northern High court. The game
was postponed from last Saturday
night on account of the inclement
weather. The meeting will be the
seventeenth one of the two schools
since 1858.
Southern won the first en-
counter this year so to 81. The
game will determine the county
championship but viii have no
bearing on the district tournament
as Southern is an "A" school and
northern is a B" school. Ratings
are determined by the number of
male students in the senior high
school.
This is the second change in the
schedule. Originally scheduled for
Friday, February 10, it was found
impossible to obtain competent
referees so the Saturday night date
was decided.
There will be a preliminary game
between the junior varsity teams
of the two schools, starting at Gas.
The varsity game is set for 8 o'clock.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1960-02-25
Fire Damages Former
Sebold Farm Home

The farm home known as the
George ScboId dwelling, at Sc
bold's turn, U. S. route 2l9, north
of McHcnry. was severely dam
aged by fire of undetermined orr
gin on Monday evening about $50
o'clock.
The two-story dwelling is oc-
cupied by Mr.. and Mrs Everett
VanSickle. Three fire companies
answered the alarm. and had ii
not been for shortage of water.
would have been able to save the
structure.
Tho roof and upstairs ceiling
were burned and water damage
vas heavy to the balance of the
home. The Accident fire depart
mcnt was first on The scene aud
later the FriendSvillc and Oakland
companies arrived to assist i'll sub
DUNG tho flames.
MIR. and Mrs. NanSicklc con
Quoted a foster home for children.
No one was injured in the blaze
but Claude Friend, an Accident
fireman, was overcome by smoke
and had to leave the scene.