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...COLLECTED NOVELS OF CONRAD AIKEN. 575 pages. Holt, Rinehart & Winston...
Consider the case of Conrad Aiken. His credentials as a man of letters are impeccable-40-odd volumes of prose and poetry, a tour of duty as consultant in poetry at the Library of Congress, a slew of literary prizes (Pulitzer, Bollingen, the gold medal for poetry of the National Institute of Arts and Letters). He has been a fixture on the literary scene as long as any living American poet. But Aiken, now 74, wryly acknowledges that he is "a dubious horse in the Pegasus sweepstakes...
...This new Aiken collection suggests why. Consisting of four novels previously published in the U.S., together with one-A Heart for the Gods of Mexico-published in England in 1939 but new to U.S. readers, it is presented with an all but impenetrable introduction by Critic R. P. Blackmur ("These snippets of anecdote make minor éclaircissements of who-knows-what...
Spent Cascade. Heart for the Gods is virtually impenetrable itself, although the plot is simple. A young woman learns that she has a heart condition that will kill her within six months. She confides in her old friend Blomberg (a thinly disguised portrait of Aiken himself) and explains that, in the short time left, she wants to go to Mexico to get a divorce from her estranged husband and to marry the man who has loved her for years. Blomberg, the woman and her intended husband travel by day coach from Boston to Mexico City. The night after they...
...committee consists of Democratic Senators Pastore of Rhode Island, Richard Russell of Georgia, Clinton P. Anderson of New Mexico, Albert Gore of Tennessee, Henry M. Jackson of Washington; Republican Senators Bourke Hickenlooper of Iowa, George Aiken of Vermont, Wallace F. Bennett of Utah, Carl Curtis of Nebraska; Democratic Representatives Chet Holifield of California, Melvin Price of Illinois, Wayne Aspinall of Colorado, Albert Thomas of Texas, Thomas G. Morris of New Mexico; Republican Representatives Craig Hosmer of California, William Bates of Massachusetts, Jack Westland of Washington and John B. Anderson of Illinois...