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Books In Brief The SNAPSHOT GUILD
GEORGE
OLM THOMSON
which would Decent; simple fellow, ho bega 12s. 6d. ful and, cometimes, the mid- lente no cheek' at Lloyd's un- for a fortnight's time to inveel
wite' arrives before the minister. binnched.
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LAXDALE HALL. By Erie, where even the rain is beauti- and aesthotle
Linklater. Capo. 301 pages.
follows 'Cate the charge. Finds threa It is concerned with peachers If Linklater's story (the good, interloping WOULD write in times like Glasgow).
from the shape, but not the mood, of guilty (on more or less flimsy Euripides tragedy, nobody evidence), three Innocent (on these," Buys Linklater's
Air Swanson, a writer whom neeg notice; if its largely non more or less optimistic evidence.) Mr Cruntit, "only small, re-
13me and the Special Commis sense nobody will care. strained and agreeable books," Laxdale Hall is middle-sized, stoners for Income Tax pursue tronic, humane, clegant
like the Furies,
studded with the wisdom that agreeable, Inclined to exuber-
bettors wit: unce; Mr Crantilly the spokes man of Ulic genial Toryism which is the philosophy of a novel pleasanlly situated in the impoverished. West Highlands
Mr Pettigrew, a rich Socialist MP,
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"What would you do to re-
And Catriona, who proposes to produce Euripides in the Luxm education?" asked Swan- cale open air, a rick climatic
“I should make I very dif- Cull to acquire," said Mr Crantit,
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"Don't tell me you're per- fect, for that's the only thing thint could estrange me,"
"I should like to bo loved for my anoney alone. It woulit, in the first place, imply thus I had some money."
THE TROUBLED AIR. By Irwin Shaw. Cape.. 15s, 460 pages.
And persuades the programme's sponsor, a rich, Jewish druggley, to be content with tiree victims. His Friend
That is only the beginning o The Troubled Air.
One of the three who aro saved is Clement's oldest, dearest Dru
Actor. most trusted friend, un Now what if he were the real kingpin Commu~ist of the lot? What if this fa, were disclosed at the critical moment when Clement hus "gone out on a limb" as a liberal defender of freedom?
That might make quite a story. The Troubled Air is quite a story. It has an "Ideological" theme. But the topleality of the theme never gets in the way of multe his author's duty to people live and his story move.
In fact, the pressure of narrative prevents the reader seeing some saws in the plot. They occur on
IVEN the Cold War, given the Communist Party, given His and Pontecorva and MacCortly, same trouble ikke The Troubled Air was sure to happen. Thank reflection. heaven, we can still watch it from a distance of 3,000 miles, or in the pages of Irwin Shaw's gripping novel,
CREATURES GREAT AND And what is the trouble? Just SMALL, By Colette. Becker & Gu. 322 pages. this: The poison of Communist Warburg. 12. Infiltration creates the counter To stories of animals, the great and novelist brings all her art insight, Englishmen, who love
poison
anti-Communist of purges, which inevitably become
anti-liberal purges.
Which polson do you prefer? Which would you rather have bubonic plague or cholera?
Show's imagined purge takes place in a New York radio net- work, where Clement Archer, director of a sponsored pro- gramme, 19 ordered to dismiss six artists charged with Communism by n smear reagazine,
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
A wagon wheel and a mailbox are prosaic items-but they combine in an interesting picture because the man behind
the camera saw the possibilities in the scene.
Pictures Everywhere
All of which makes me won- FRIEND who went to school A
someone sży in the city of Niagara Falls der when I hear confessed not long ago that in he's shot all the picture pussi two winters there only once billties around him, or that ho camera when he had he visited the Falls them only uses his selves. "I knew, of course, that goes on trips, the Fails were
one of the nu-
the world. Picture possibilities are almost tural wonders of But I knew, too, that they'd limitless consider how the still be there tomorrow or next changes of morning and after- week. And this week always noon light make two different scened Alled with things to scenes of the same street. Cun- sider a fruit tree In blogsuni do."
barren of and the same tree, This admission only goes to leaves but with snow conteci prove how easy it is to over- branches.
Thus a city dweller
The may see outflanked by a Frenchwoman took the Tailings
answer, of course, les who loves both and-what pre- the picture in a twisting fence with the picture taker. By sumption!-professes to under-
which the farmer looks a training himself to think stand them.
ling me
-terms-of pictures, by learning to only as the boundary CLASSIC CRIMES. By Wiliaming the end of some past recognise picture possibilties, farmer sees the by practising to see the picture Roughead. Cassell, 1. l. 449 land. Or the
Murders most horrible, picture in the twisting street of in each scene, he increases his pages,
fascinating, most huma city which the urban man re joy in his camera. most orously re-told and annotated by gards as a shortcut on his way
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YOU WERE
WALKING- THROUGH A TUNNEL BUT THE FARTHER
YOU WALKED THE FARTHER AWAY WAS THE END
John van Guilder."
WHEN YOU DID COME TO THE END YOU FOUND
A REVOLVING DOOR FULL OF SAKES WHICH PIERCED YOU AS YOU WENT
THROUGH
THIS DREAM MEANS: Another claustrophobia dream: with Its fear of closed spaces, of being shut-in, of being unable to escape.
You try to escape from the tunnel but the means of escape, te, the door, recedes from you when you do get to it it offers every resistance: however, after suffering pain and· injury, you do get away.
Cave or tunnel symbolises the mother's Influence of the subconscious mind or both.
A common source of helpless frustration is the feeling of complete emotional dependence on one's mother; accompanied by a dread of -the responsibilities of being freed from sich
ntle.
You might ask yourself, who do you feel is standing in the way of your solving your problems?
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