Tongue of Fire reviews McCarthy era fiction
Ernest Frankel’s Tongue of Fire parallels McCarthyism and the postwar fear climate through Kane O Connor. The reviewer finds the rapid rise and fall of a House figure implausible, the telecast era overrun by stock characters, and the prose rushed and juvenile. thus the novel fails as serious history or melodrama.
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Korea
Norman Keller
Milwaukee
Georgia
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Keller
Tongue OF Fire
Dial
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Frankel
Joe McCarthy
Kane O'Connor
House of Representatives
North Carolina
Navy
Far East
State Department
National Experimental Center
O'Connor
House
New York City
McCarthy
Wisconsin
New York
Congress
Senate
Rayburn
Cannon
Halleck
Celler
Hendersonville
The Slayers Of Poetry Time
A columnist laments poetry's decline in schools from preschool to college. Scanning and memorization dull interest, while interpretation prizes hidden meanings. Despite enduring poets and new voices, poetry remains unread by many graduates.
East Wind Rising signals shifting Powers in Asia
Relman Morin's East Wind Rising argues the white man’s era in the Far East is ending as new forces rise. The book blends China and Japan stories with diplomatic maneuvers from turn of the century to the Korean War, criticizing U.S. policy and colonial attitudes while highlighting Chinese and Japanese perspectives.
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Relman Morin
Knopf
Far East
China
Japan
Morin
Associated Press
Pers
America
United States
California
Kuomintang
Wes Gallagher
Raeder memoir notes limited view of Nazi era and naval war
Richard F. Newcomb reviews Sailor's Report MY LIFE by Grand Admiral Erich Raeder. The former German Navy chief recounts Jutland and rebuilding of the fleet, but omits Hitler figures and full naval detail, ending with his 1943 resignation and later life.
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United States Naval Institute
Grand Adm
Raeder
Hitler
Germany
Nurnberg
Spandau
Goering
Self-Taught Nuclear Physicist Divorced in California
Nicholas Christofilos and his wife Elly were granted divorce in Oakland California. She cites infidelity and retains custody of their three year old son Nicholas Jr and receives seven hundred dollars monthly alimony plus one hundred dollars child support. He and Elly had been at odds for some time and he called her insanely jealous.
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Calif
Nicholas Christofilos
University of California
Elly
Nicholas, Jr
Scientists In Trouble THE AFFAIR
Author C P Snow presents a new entry in the Strangers and Brothers sequence set back to the 1910s. The eighth novel continues the examination of moral choices and personal conflict within academia and society.
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C. P. Snow
Scribners
Strangers and Brothers
Snow
The Lincoln Lords and a Contested University Justice Drama
Howard a visiting professor is accused of cheating and faking a photograph at a major English university in 1953. Lewis and Margaret Snow lead a truthful but contested pursuit of justice as masters divide along loyalties, prejudices, and beliefs in a Dreyfus like affair.
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Lewis Eliot
Howard
Crawford
Laura
Lewis
Margaret
Dreyfus
Art Derain Biography by Denys Sutton
Denys Sutton profiles the late painter Andre Derain in a Phaidon Doubleday book, arguing he belongs in a sound but not leading position of modern art. The work, with 100 illustrations, aims to restore Derain as a significant figure beyond his era.
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Denys Sutton
Phaidon Doubleday
Derain
Picasso
Ozenfant
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