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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-10
Nobel Prize Winners
In Turgid Prose

physical details of Stockholm
are, I do not doubt, accurate
ly drawn, and the way in
which the Nobel festivities
are conducted is unquestion-
ably historical.
The story itself is not
without excitement, but the
inelegant and turgid prose
makes the book hard to pillow
through. "The cognac in
Spired him to further COM
parison, odious as this was,
and he judged his two wom-
en-, mistress and wife, side
by side in nudity. He tried
to be fair. Technically, di-
vested of all clothing, Gisele
was less than perfection.
When she was unclad, her
lines were too spare, bony,
almost skeletal Denise
was shorter, fuller, rounder.
Her shortcomings were her
hair, shingled in a mascu-
line bob; a nose too plugged,
hips too wide, thighs too
thick. In full dress, she was
not soignee, and bulged and
protruded too much to pos
sess the mannequin chic.
Stark naked, she was twice
as attractive. :"
If you can stand a great
deal of this stuff, you might
be entertained by the plot.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-10
Scientists in the New
Role Of PoIicymokers

world-aS did scientists in
the 1858 Conference of Ex-
perts" in Geneva. These ne
gotiatorS made disarmament
concessions without realizing
the full diplomatic conse-
quences.
But on the other hand sci
entists have been valued ad-
viSors during the policy dis
cuSsionS that have gone
around and around the
atomic dilemma" ever since
the A bomb was conceived.
Mr.. Gilpin does not say
which school of scientific
thought has been correct, but
certainly some group has
been right, because scientists
have stood on all sides of
every question of defense,
disarmament and foreign
policy.
But whether right or
wrong, Mr.. Gilpin points out,
scientists not only have
brought valuable technical
knowledge to the disputes but
have also stimulated Ameri-
can political thought during
a most dangerous period.
ID. F.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-10
IN FICTION
A Bit Closer to BEING
Truly Wodehousiun'

munist spies and a secret
military weapon called THE
Colonel" 1t eats cows.
\ 4 y
THE PLANE TREES. BY
Monique Lange. PAN
theon; $3.50
Diego. a mentioning news
paperman, is driving from
Paris to the Riviera in the
hope of meeting his former
mistress, Nathalie. Just as
he is leaving the city,
Claudia, the girl who loves
him, invites herself along for
the ride, promising to catch
the train home after a few
hours drive. In something
less than 10000 words this
short. ruthlesSly precise
novel details the 60 hours of
their journey south.
Constantly present in the
car is a third passenger, the
glamorous image of Nathalie.
And no wonder. Even If
Diego had been willing to for
get about Nathalie for a few
minutes, Claudia's madden
ingly perverse urge to dis
cuss her would have prevent
ed it. The poor girl compul-
Sively talks, leases, analyses
and agoniZes over the situa-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-10

vigor to ailing, burdenSome
senility. She approves of her
daughter Charlotte's match
with the solid Ralph Nc
Govern, a pillar of the Pres
byterian Church. She toler-
ates her daughter Sarah DIS
marriage to the feckleSs
Charlie. She passionately
opposes Annals alliance with
an uneducated crane-driver.
1t ends badly, as she thought
it would. Her favorite in the
family is her inconstant son,
Will.
"A Family's Affairs" is not
a story. merely an account
Of a united, loving clan who
bear each others burdens
and rally round in time of
trouble. Miss Douglas writes
Of the Andersons with COM
passion and honesty. They
are real, if not entirely mem
orable characters.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-10
In Surdonic Vein

Irish Murdoch, the witty,
sardonic English novelist, is
the third chronicler of love
and marriage this week. She
deals irreverently with all the
perversities of the human
heart in IAN UNOFFICIAL
ROSE" Viking; $4.95). A
brilliant review of the tangled
passions of an English fam
lily, whose members stimuli
taneously strike out for new
relationships.
On the death OF his wife,
Hugh Perronett seeks out the
mistress he did not dare
marry when he could. He
finds her ensconced with a
luscious young female COM
panion, who is coveted by
his son Randall. Randall'S
forsaken wife, Ann, is con-
soled by her neighbours
brother, Felix. The neighbor
is married to a homosexual,
sets her cap for Hugh. Her
hush and fancies AIMS
nephew, an adolescent from
Australia, who is under the
spell of AIMS daughter.
It's a sort of Anglo-Saxon
version of La Ronde" or
perhaps a highly sophisti-
Gated version of The Farmer
in the DELL" Miss Murdoch,
examines all the ironies of
these complexities, ruefully
noting that freedom is an
illusion and that what we
get and what we want are
not entirely the same things.
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be reading an actual case out
of the Congressional Record
or from the columns Of the
New York Times. There is no
artistic foreshortening, no
implication, no single sem
tence that will suffice for
two sentences. Mr.. Haydn'S
ability to write in this man
ner is easy and assured, and
certainly extreme realism is a
legitimate and honorable
novelistic style. But the very
essence of Walton Herrick is
a life not extraordinary but
typical of our time; he is the
man of good will not always
happy in success. When so
essentially colorless an in
dividual is not suggested but
portrayed full length, with
every ramification of thought
and feeling, every impinge-
ment on family and friend,
the result in many hundred
thousand words is in danger
of tediouSneSS. Now and then
the readers attention flags.
Separated from his wife,
Herrick spends the summer
devoted to three distractions.
There is a new friend, Abe
Fortune, the political king
maker, who is remarkable in
III at although apparently
successful as a politician his
great interest in politics is
theoretical rather than prac-
teal. He is a combination of
Plato and Jim Farley. Sec
ondly, there is trouble at the
foundation, where Herrick
finds that an important ap-
pointee of his, who is cursed
with bygone left-wing con-
nections, is persona non
gratd. He defends him vigor-
ously on principle, without
any thought of his own posi-
ton, and when he loses his
fight, resigns in protest, and
goes into book publishing.
The last distraction is the
beautiful Sonia, from whose
bed even Herrick'S nagging
sense of marital decency can
not keep him. Finally, after
a reconciliation with his wife,
Herrick is forced by honesty
to confess his summertime
infidelity, and his wife leaves
him a second time.
49,
At this point the book ends,
but not the story. ". E.
While I have attempted to
bring this single novel to
some sense of resolution"
says Mr.. Haydn, II have
Subordinated this attempt to
my larger concept of the
whole series. Hence the pres
ent incompleteness of the
portraits of a number of
characters, and of many
relationships between
characters"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-10
A Loving Clan

Ellen Douglas examines the
same subject-love and mar
riage-in a longer, more
realistic book which won the
Houghton Mifflin Esquire
Fellowship Award "a FAM
ILY'S AFFAIRS" (Houghton
Mifflin; $3.50
The family in question is
the Anderson matriarchy of
Homochitto. Mississippi. Miss
Douglas (this is a pen-name)
rather insists on the eccen-
tricity Of the Andersons with
out ever illustrating it. BY
comparison with other south
ern literary families of recent
vintage, they are reSoundingly
conventional. Perhaps what
she means is that their strong
sense of clan identity gives
them a security which shabby
gentility cannot disturb.
= 4 .
The matriarch is Kate,
whom we follow from full
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-10
THE PRIZE. A novel by Irv-
ing Wallace. (Simon g.
SchuSter: S5.95)

The PRIZE. A novel by Irv-
ing Wallace. (Simon g.
SchuSter; $3.50
Six brilliant people in
America, Italy and France,
receive kilograms that they
have won the Nobel Prize,
and they duly interrupt their
various lives to congregate
in Stockholm. There they
find much more than the ex-
pected high-level Speechmak-
ing and august ceremonies.
Love, hatred, intrigue and
sex make the Swedish CAPT.
tai and the cherished occa-
sion seem more like a night
club in the California desert
and a collection of Raymond
Chandler characters deep in
lurid adventure than the dis
tribution of awards of merit
for service to humanity.
OF the many reasons for
which an author can assem-
bic in one spot a cast of
characters, the Nobel Prize is
as good as the next. 1t Ger
tainly has the merit of origi-
nality, and Irving Wallace
has "reSearched" his novel
meticulously. CWhy is it that
so much fiction must be re-
searched these days?) The
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-10

woman who wishes her stall
wart husband were the kind
of man to whom she could
bring the ribbon of the day"
There is a specter at the
feast, the uncle Of the bride,
a philandering psychiatrist.
who wishes his proper wife
were less of a lemon and more
of a peach. But his reServa-
tons are outweighed by the
mother Of the maid of honor,
who has achieved happiness
in her second marriage, after
a disastrous first, and by the
grandfather of the bride who
knows from his own expert
ence that happiness in mar
riage existed"
The foreign view is repre-
sented by the best man, a
Frenchman who wishes Amer
lean girls were more womanly,
and by his uncle, who misses
his perfect French wife. An
other outsider is the brides
great-aunt, a spinster school,
teacher who wonders what it
was about marriage that
cowed people"
Mrs. Lindbergh is percep-
tive, but she is also a little
sentimental and at times,
cloying. Her book is assured
of an enormous and perhaps
doting audience, particularly
among women.
Dearly Beloved" has rolled
up a record advance sale of
$4,000 copies.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-10
Other Books of the Week in Brief Review

vestigation into writings
from the past; how they
were discovered, deciphered,
and what they reveal about
ancient peoples and civiliza-
tons, with photographs
and Illustrations. (Re-
print.)
HUMAN SOCIETY IN ETH
les AND POLITICS. BY
Bertrand Russell. "a Men
tor Book, New American
Library; go cents.) In this
book, Lord Russell asserts
that common sense unhin-
dered by outdated precon-
ceptions can solve the over
towering political problems
of the times. CReprint0
A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE
WESTERN WORLD. BY
Stewart C. Watson.
Barnes and Noble; $2.250
From prehistoric time to
the present, including maps
and a chronological chart.
NATURE IN SHAKESPEARE
IAN TRAGEDY. By Robert
Speaight. COLLIER; 95
cents.) The role of nature
in inlet. Macbeth,
Othello, King Lear, Antony
and Cleopatra, and The
Tempest.
IGOR STRAVINSKY. An
autobiography. (The Nor
ton Library; $1.45.) (Re-
print.)
THE MADONNA OF THE
FUTURE. And Other Early
Stories. By Henry James.
$50 centS.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-10
SWinnerton Novel Tolls
End of q Literary Era

the arrogance of a modern
highbrow.
In a slim and delicately
wrought novel, and in a very
genteel atmosphere, we are
introduced to men and
women Of a select set. Be-
hind a superior manner we
discover the envy and hidden
longing that lie at the heart
of their last live member,
Mr.. Graham Stanhope. We
watch him sick and old re-
living a so year rivalry with
a writer of a very different
temper.
At the very end, the death
scene is superb. So many
layers of Graham Stanhope
have been peeled away. One
can't help thinking of an
onion, only the difference is
that after all the unpeeling,
something has been revealed.
-INNA UHLTG.
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AMERICAN SCIEN lists
AND THE NUCLEAR
WEAPONS POLICY. BY

AMERICAN s Gle N lists
AND THE NUCLEAR
WEAPONS POLICY. BY
Robert Gilpin. princeton
University Press; $685.
One of the significant and
certainly lasting by-productS
of the nuclear age has been
the thrusting of scientists
into the nations military, for
eign policy and political deci-
sion-making processes. Mr..
Gilpin has analysed the new
role of the scientist in this
significant and timely book.
He looks at scientists as
individuals, not, as do some
observers, as a block of great
minds manipulating the
world for good or evil. The
individuals, he points out,
may agree on basic princi-
Piles of science, but when
they enter the policy making
arena they disagree with one
another often and vehe-
mently.
Some scientists clearly
made mistakes when they
stepped outside their own
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-10
IN FICTION
MOONRAKERS AND MIS-
CHIEF. BY G. j. Feakes.
lives, Washblun; $500

MOONfkAhEhS AND MIS-
CHIEF. By G. j. Feakes.
lives, Washburn; $500
Writers Of publishers pub
licity releases have lately
fallen into the sloppy habit
of labelling practically any
funny, or allegedly funny
comedy Of manners novel
"Wodehousian." This only
proves how limited is their
knowledge of the great mans
early-middle period: The era
of Psmith, Ukridge, and the
vintage Jeeves and Wooster.
OF the several reminiscent
of Wodehouse" novels that
have cropped up recently, the
one that comes closest to the
mark is this page from the
history Of courtship in Bilton
Parva. The time-tested in
gradients are present and ac-
counted for. There is the
love-sick young man with a
genius for getting into dubi-
Gus situations; the fierce
Aunt Agatha-type female
relative; the character-build-
ing draught Of homebrew; the
climactic church lawn festival.
The author brings his lively
proceedings up to date by
throwing in a couple # Com
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-10

that might explain the real
character af the Mexican
and his culture. The Texas
Pan-American Series.
CHRISTOPHER OF SAN
FRANCISCO. BY George
Dorsey. Macmillan; So
A biography of George
Christopher, San Francis
cos mayor since 1855.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-10
NATURAL HISTORY
SERIES BECOMES
MAJOR LIBRARY

Five more fine paper
backs have Just been issued
in THE Natural History
Library" series, bringing
the total number Of vol
umes in the Library to
about 20. Details:
Between the Planets, re-
vised edition, by Fletcher
G. Watson, SIPS. Comets,
meteorites, asteroids and
textiles are among the sub
ject dealt with. The sup
posedly empty" space Of
the solar system is shown
not to be so empty after
all.
Puffins, by R. M. Lock-
ley, SIPS. A British natu-
ralist's account of the life
and times of an interesting
and comical bird, based on
a long series of personal
observations.
Grand Canyon, by Joseph
Wood Krutch, SIPS. The
biography" Of one Of the
seven natural wonders of
the world, with side glances
at the flora and fauna of
the region.
Observations and Expert
mentS in Natural History,
by Alan Dale, 95 cents. A
fine handbook Of things to
do today" for fledgling
scientists and just-plain
science bluffs.
Early Man in the New
World, revised edition, by
Kenneth Mcgowan and
Joseph A. Hester, jr., $1.45.
An account of the wander
ings of pre- Columbian man
from the time he crossed
the land bridge" from
Asia. WILLIAM HINES,
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A Portrait
OF q Senator
Full Length
MR.. SENTATIVE:
BARRY GOLDWATER. BY
Jack Bell. doubleday;
S450O

Jack Bell. Doubleday;
$4.50.)
Biographical in the sense
that it incorporates the sub
ject's personal history, this
book is much more. 1t is an
analytical study Of Gold
waters beliefs. his positions
on public questions and his
methods.
The author has been scru-
pulouSly objective. and that
is one of the principal values
of the volume. Bell is chief
political writer for the ASso-
ciated Press, and his quarter
of a century of experience
has given him an ingrained
sense of balance in reporting
pro and con.
Good Reporting
Consequently, no matter
what the readers own politi-
cal feelings, he will find here
a cool and unimpassioned job
of reporting. Bell has pro-
vided Illuminated informa-
ton, without leaning toward
either praise or criticism.
Goldwater is presented first
as a business man who got
into politics by way of the
United States Senate. He is
shown in his early relation
ships with such Republican
figures as Taft, Dirksen and
Mccarthy. His attitudes in
such fields as labor unions
and the John Birch Society
are carefully explored.
Nixon Kennedy
Then comes the period of
Eisenhower and Nixon, with
special attention to Gold
waters feelings about the
Nixon Kennedy campaign,
followed by the Senator's
relationship with President
Kennedy.
And finally there is a wide
sweeping survey Of the whole
political scene and where
three figures fit into it -
Goldwater, Nixon and Rookie
Teller. Bells text is followed
by an essay written by Gold
water himself, titled "a Con-
servative's Creed"
Bells objectivity does moi
prevent him from making
reasoned measurements and
judgments about Goldwater
and his activities. He uses
copious quotations from his
subject, and where he feels
balance is needed, he inter-
polates other views. The book
is a thorough analysis of a
major public figure, and a
Skillful presentation.
MILES A. SMITH.
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Reds Master
Plan Nay Be
Breaking Up
COLD WAR AND COMMON

SOLD van AND COMmON
SENSE. By Thomas w.
Wilson. jr. New York
Graphic Society; $4.95D
Mr.. Wilson gives us a help
full score card on the cold
war and a reminder that our
side has not been losing
steadily even though it often
seems that way. If the Krem-
lin has a master plan for
world domination, he says,
it isn't working too we'll.
Specifically, he reminds us,
the free world pushed the
Surging Soviet bloc out of
Greece and Iran and stopped
it in Europe and Korea. More
encouraging, he says, is the
facts that the Communist
successes have been based
on military strength rather
than an appealing theology.
This book is a companion
to several recent books and
articles designed by admin
istration figures to counter
act a common American
feeling that all is lost or
about to be lost. Mr.. Wilson,
a special assistant to the
Assistant Secretary of State
for international organiza-
tons, is clearly exasperated
with the prophets of doom.
But he strives for balance.
In pointing out the military
successes of the Communists,
he makes a strong argument,
by implication, for improved
free-world military forces.
He does not suggest that we
can simply out-argue or out
concede the Communists and
still survive the cold war.
dick FRYKLUND.
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BOOKS IN REVIEW
Hands of Esou' Storts
A Long New TriIogy
BY DAY THORPE
Star Book Critic
THE HANDS OF

THE HANDS OF ESAU, novel by Hiram Haydn Oaarper
g. Bros; $7.503
Hiram Haydn has published the first Of ambitious
of novels called The Generations of Adam" which,
carried the scale of THE Hands of Esau" will
evolve narrative seldom before matched in magnitude
in American fiction The present novel large book of
nearly 800 pages and two others announced in
preparation.
The title from GenesisAThe voice is Jacobs voice
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-10

but the hands are the hands
Of ESau." Walton Herrick
combines the voice and hands
Of the two brothers in one
person; the development of
the novel is concerned with
the life of a man who is
successful, intelligent, and
imaginative, but who is never
quite capable of pleasing
himself, of enjoying the fruit
of his own achievement.
AS the story opens, Her
rick. 46, a former college
professor and now a top
executive of a large founda-
ton involved in worldwide
social work, learns that he
is being considered as candi-
date for Governor of the
State Of Connecticut, and on
the same day he learns that
his wife is leaving him. From
this point his story is told
forward and backward. Mr..
Haydn uses every narrative
device to create his character
the third-perSon tale, let
tiers, diaries. public docu-
ments, telephone converSa-
tons, an analysts dialogue,
and extensive flashbacks to
the days of Herrick's child
hood and youth and even to
the eraS of his forebears.
However dissimilar the
friends. associates and &C
quaintances of Walton Her
rick may be they have in
common an insuperable COM
puSion to talk about them
selves and to analyze them
selves unanimously in prose.
This proclivity is the making
of the book, and it may also
be its weakness, for the
accumulation of evidence,
serious. fair, complete, un-
humorous, sometimes seems
more like the undigeSted file
OF a history rather than
the history itself.
For example, one of Her.
rick's dominant characters
tics is an ingrained liberal
ism, an unwillingness to
dominate in any way the
thought or action of others.
He will not pigeon-hole man
kind. This side of Herrick is
exposed at one of his mo-
ments of greatest glory
when he testifies in behalf
OF his foundation before a
Congressional investigating
committee. He defends his
organization brilliantly, and
defects a typical Communist
witchhunt elsewhere; perhaps
in some small way advances
the universal cause of liber-
aliSm. The incident is given
as a 15-page verbatim tran
script Of the hearing itself
a piece of writing SO abso-
lutely realistic that the
reader is aware that he might
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THE ARCHITECTURE OF
MONUMENTS. BY Thomas


H. Creighton. (Reinhold
Publishing Corp; $685.
Under a somewhat all
inclusive title suggesting a
much broader subject, Mr..
Creighton brings together
all the facts you don't need
to know to make up your
mind about the Franklin D.
Roosevelt Memorial. In text
and pictures, this is the story
of the big competition.
1t is quite evident by now
that facts and background
such matters as whether any
monumentality is valid or
whether the Petersen & Til
ney design is the best of
STA entries submitted-are
not. indeed, of any great i'm
portance.
If you don't like the FDR
memorials giant tablets,
nothing ever will make you
like them except a new set
of prejudices, and they're not
easy to come by.
In the Middle
Read these 1872 pages and
you may find you don't like
the design for the wrong
reason or, perhaps, don't like
it for the right reason, or
maybe even like it for no
reason at all.
But don't expect any of
this very helpful review of
the results of the competi-
ton to change your mind.
Unless, by some quirk, you
discover, as I did, that
another set of your prejudices
has been encouraged by a
stray fact to unhorse your
earlier ones and leave you
right in the middle, neither
pro nor con and caring not
a whit one way or another.
The fact I discovered in
this book that I didn't know
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GENERAL

PROFILE OF MAN AND
CULTURE IN MEXICO.
By Samuel Ramos. Trans
lated by Peter G. Earle.
University of Texas; $4.50O
Samuel Ramos avowed
purpose is to assist in the
spiritual reform OF Mexico
by developing a theory