Word: affectionate
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For Alienation of Affection. When Warren Robinson Austin was a village boy (birthplace: Highgate, pop. 300), his dragon-swearing grandfather predicted: "Warren, you'll never amount to anything. You have 20 irons in the fire at once and you never finish any of them." Austin never forgot how he...
Chalk & Cornfields. This humane little story is fortified with homely scenes: Uncle Adrian tippling a bit or sinking his hands lovingly into dough, Philip teasing the baker's lovesick apprentice. Novelist Newby has a fine ear for simple speech ("The tongue is the waterspout of the heart," declaims Uncle...
Schumann: Scenes of Childhood (Vladimir Horowitz, pianist; Victor, 1 side LP). Pianist Horowitz caresses Schumann's cameolike little classics with more affectation than affection.
The fun that Author Charles Mergendahl has with such background stuff is the best thing in his light little novel, It's Only Temporary. Whenever he sticks to impressionistic sketches of packaged postwar living, his book is amusing. But since It's Only Temporary is also supposed to...
Indispensable though they will be to historians, F.D.R.'s letters hardly make popular reading in bulk. Lacking the literary quality and range of Churchill's wartime writings, they succeed only intermittently in suggesting why Roosevelt was such a dynamic wartime leader or why he captured the love and...