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British Novelist Spark has been compared to Evelyn Waugh, but the comparison is inexact: she is, in fact, a kind of welfare state Jane Austen, a novelist in whose hands the commonplace becomes mysteriously implausible, the routine eerily irrational. Unlike the scheming septuagenarians of her earlier novel, Memento Mori, the inhabitants of Peckham Rye are so determinedly average that they lack even the capacity to sin grandly. When Mr. Vincent Druce, the managing director of a small textile firm, visits his secretary, Miss Merle Coverdale, to make love to her in the evening, their activity is as carefully calculated...
...novel about Cambridge people and their talk, "We Happy Few," has made the community uneasy ever since. Miss Howe is a small, bright-featured woman whose father is Mark A. DeWolfe Howe, and whose home-town is Boston. She has written enough novels to qualify as the "Jane Austen" of New England...
Erikson did research at the Harvard Medical School before joining the Austen Riggs Center, Stockbridge, in 1931. Still at the Center, he is currently working with the psychological problems of young people. He has been involved in the study of childhood most of his life...
...Richard Austen Butler, 56, Home Secretary and Leader of the House of Commons. Top Tory thinker and the man who oversaw the party's postwar shift to "the New Conservatism," i.e., free enterprise heavily tempered by welfare statism, "Rab" Butler is distrusted by many fellow Tories for reasons ranging from his barbed wit to his prewar identification with Neville Chamberlain's appeasement. Although he remains the No. 2 man in the party, Butler may well be too old for the job the next time the Tories come to choose a new Prime Minister, and there is considerable question...
...American past, suggesting that only yesterday Horatio Alger was king. "Status striving" to him seems to be a modern menace, and he writes of it with scant mention of Thorstein ("conspicuous consumption") Veblen or of the massive, fascinating and often exhilarating social climbs described by Balzac, Stendhal, Jane Austen...