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...deeper understanding, we hope, was provided by Alwyn Lee, who wrote the cover story (Lee also happens to be a friend of Nolan's, a fellow Australian), and by Editor Jesse Birnbaum and Researcher Martha McDowell. To find out what young people these days think of poetry in general, we queried many TIME bureaus and campus correspondents. One of our stringers got into the spirit of things to the point of rewriting our query in verse form ("Poetry in an age of prose,/who knows how it survives?/Who can tell us why/it has so many lives?"). We appreciated...
Every TIME writer cherishes some favorite puns he has managed to get into print. Richard Burgheim takes credit for calling the book Peyton Place a "peeping tome," while Alwyn Lee related in a book review how "the critics have been whooping it up in the Malamud salon...
...Alfried Felix Alwyn Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, 58, fifth-generation ruler of the Krupp empire, last week's dilution of ownership, no matter how tiny, could only signify changing times in a life that has seen many changes. When Krupp succeeded to his family's industrial throne in 1943, the word Krupp was synonymous with armaments. The Krupp plants produced the weapons that helped Hitler ravage Europe; by the end of World War II most of the Krupp factories lay in ruins, pounded into rubble by Allied bombers, and Alfried Krupp himself was sentenced to twelve years...
...from his malaise, he leaves his London parish for a quiet East Suffolk village. There he lives with his brother, a dentist, who also dislikes everything modern; his brother's wife, a disappointed woman who digs in her garden as if she had lost something there; their son Alwyn, amoral, educated, cheerfully modern; and Alwyn's fiancee Jenny, who has no characteristic except marriageability...
...soul, how futile to examine its surface." From this point the novel becomes a series of aimless events and objectless soliloquies. Although no one seems insane, the tensions of madness, which have preoccupied the author in her earlier writing, are injected in a mechanical and unconvincing way. Son Alwyn murders an Italian farm laborer he has never seen before, for no reason except to be in the spirit of his century. Then, acting under no apparent desire or compulsion, he seduces his mother. Much later, a large chandelier falls and kills several characters...