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ions, and prejudices-death, war, hunting, love, good food, good wine,
the true comradeship of "combat men," the true
noblesse
of waiters and
boatmen, the vileness of intellectuals, journalists, and members of the
middle class-all so vulgarized that one wonders how the writer
him–
self can possibly be taken in. The love scenes are perhaps more maw–
kish than the love scenes of
For Whom the Bell Tolls;
there is some
of the same coyness about "rough" language ; there is an infinity of
dreary college-fraternity whimsy about something called the "Order of
Brusadelli"; there is continual snobbery on every subject from wine to
military tactics, including the final solemn observation that the real
snobs are not people from "old families" but the ones with "all the new
money." The heroine, a nineteen-year-old Italian countess, is the ideal
Vassar girl: she smells good without perfume, she is emancipated,
beautiful, brave, "true," as affectionate as a kitten, and, with the right
man, completely subservient (" ... she came into the room, shining in
her youth and tall striding beauty, and the carelessness the wind had
made of her hair") ; the hero, an American army officer, is a combina–
tion of Westbrook Pegler and Humphrey Bogart, with a glaze of cul–
ture (" ... the cruelty and resolution showed in his strange eyes as clearly
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