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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Married. Edith Kermit Roosevelt, 20, brunette medical-student granddaughter of T.R.; and Alexander G. Barmine, ex-Soviet general turned anti-Communist author (One Who Survived); she for the first time, he for the third; in Northport, N.Y., at a wedding unattended by the bride's parents...
...five, the title poem of this book, is mainly a befuddled piece of pseudo-Stoic claptrap, to be read in sorrow by all who admire the author. Its burden is that God and King are gone, even Man is a little shopworn, but the "human perishable heart" remains as the hero of the future, since there...
...parties, childbearing) is conveyed sensitively, in clean and restrained prose. Time Will Darken It is often too loosely constructed, frequently lingers with characters who don't help the story along, but it weighs with considerable accuracy and tenderness the half-articulated impulses of disenchanted people who believe, with Author Maxwell, that "the apple had gone bad a long time ago, and slugs had eaten the rose, that the hay had mildewed in the barn, and the last hope of fair dealing was lost in third-grade arithmetic...
...that "it has made hardly any progress." (His compromise is the shrill and not unexpected determination "to vote for Wallace, even if I had to write in his name on the ballot.") And with the kind of disingenuousness that would have appalled another of his heroes, Psychologist William James, Author Matthiessen insists that he cannot become a Marxist because "I am a Christian, not through upbringing but by conviction...
...readers will share Author Matthiessen's sense of the abominations "behind the golden curtain" of the U.S.; more (conceivably including Mrs. Oksana Kasenkina) will find it ludicrous that an American can write: "I admit that my first night home [in Boston's Louisburg Square] I woke up in a sudden sweat of fear ... I was back in a very uncertain battle." Christian, Socialist, non-Marxist Professor Matthiessen's idea of certainty: "It [Soviet Russia] knows what it wants, and brutalized as much of its practice may have been, it still points toward a goal that gives...