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Daphne Athas is young (23), and so is her first novel, an intense story of youthful anguish. Her title is borrowed from Poet Dylan Thomas's line: "A process in the weather of the heart turns damp to dry." It is seldom enough that novelists of any age gauge the process so surely. The Weather of the Heart gives some meaning to that worn publisher's tag, "a new writer of distinction...
Kafka has also been called a theological writer, a philosophical writer, a Zionist, a Freudian, a bitter social critic, a Kafkaist. Plain readers may brush aside the tags. For them two facts are important: 1) to express the manifold, intangible anguish of life, Kafka told his greatest stories in the condition of dreams (he understood that dreams, despite their infinite fluidity of merging forms, have great narrative economy); 2) as a symbolist (Kafka's long books are called novels chiefly by reason of their length), he found for his two greatest stories, The Trial and The Castle...
There was anguish in Brooklyn; the betting odds on the Dodgers' pennant chances lengthened. The Harvard Crimson wanted Leo hired as assistant coach of Harvard's baseball team. A Brooklyn Congregational Church group petitioned Chandler to reinstate Durocher. Though there were some who thought The Lip had long been asking for trouble, sportswriters generally agreed that Durocher had been hit with a beanball. Said the New York Herald Tribune's Sports Editor Stanley Woodward: "Knowing he was under fire for timidity, Chandler took refuge in overaction . . . .the most colossal piece of injustice and bravado yet perpetrated...
...young (29) Presbyterian Minister Perry F. Rockwood in sermon after angry sermon in his little fieldstone church in Truro, Nova Scotia. "Hell," he told his flock, "is a place just as much as Truro is a place. It is not a condition Hell is a place of terrible pain, anguish and suffering. . . . Those who die in their sins must burn and burn and burn forevermore...
...fatally wounded fugitive hero, at large in the gnashing city like a loose bolt in a machine, is Man in the extremity of anguish and dereliction. As such, he is a quick test of the presence or absence of true charity among those with whom he collides. And among all these people, who combine with the dark city into a moral image of the modern world, very little true charity is evident...