Word: auchinclosses
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...LOUIS AUCHINCLOSS 231 pages. Houghton Mifflin...
...very best, as in The Rector of Justin, Louis Auchincloss can not only enforce sobriety and respect among his readers; he manages to convey some sense of the strengths and well-harnessed passions that underlie the propriety of his WASP characters. There has always been a strain of unintended comedy in this kind of mannerly fiction, however. The habits and rituals of Auchincloss's well-bred people-moneyed Protestants in the backwaters of the Eastern Establishment -are in themselves no more ridiculous than those of other groups. But the author is so solemn about them that when his control...
...finals, Stuart and Morgan faced another Yale team, the unseeded Auchincloss and Mercer, which had upset a second-seeded Mt. Holyoke team earlier in the competition. The Cliffies had to come from behind in both sets (3-5, 1-5) before pulling out a hair-raising 7-5, 7-6 match...
That kind of remark is going out of fashion, but the mark of Adam is still quite visible. Anthony Burgess, a first-rate commentator on fiction, still "gains no pleasure from serious reading that lacks a strong male thrust and a brutal intellectual content." Louis Auchincloss once paused in the course of a critical essay on Jean Stafford to express awe that she was resourceful enough to hail...
...Farm-where Jacqueline Onassis spent her summers when she was young, and which John F. Kennedy used on occasion as the summer White House during the Camelot days-has now been listed for sale. "Too much of a burden to maintain," said a spokesman for Washington Stockbroker Hugh D. Auchincloss, Jackie's stepfather. Not that the Auchinclosses will find themselves with nowhere to lay their heads in Newport. Only the main house and 25 acres are on the market, leaving the family with about 45 acres and two other houses -not to mention caretaker cottages, greenhouses and garages...