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Minilit

SHOULD Soviet literature be discussed purely in terms of • its `esthetic' qualities? Or is it legiti- mate to survey it in its social and political con- text? The latter, imply......

Some Lives

WITH his romantic concern for personality, Mr. John Gunther is the Eamonn Andrews of inter- national journalism. One can just about imagine some TV impresario, specialist in......

The Legionaries

An Absence of Angels. By Gordon Dryland. (Collins, 18s.) Under a Changing Moon. By Margot Benary. Translated by Rosaleen Ockenden and the author. (Macmillan, I5s.) Dialogues......