1 FEBRUARY 1963, page 25

Heart And Bust

Two American epic novels this week are both probably, bound for the British best-seller lists. To anyone who cares about prose, let alone humanity, one has heart and the other......

Consecration Of The Computer

You're nothing but a pack of cards Like great grey rats with their electric whiskers The hungry morons eat our lives in seconds. The sinister doctor breaks down and is led away......

The People, Perhaps

The Age of Reform. By Richard Hofstadter. (Cape, 30s.) The Paradoxes of Freedom. By Sidney Hook. California and C.U.P., 40s.) MR. HOFSTADTER'S The Age of Reform provides a......