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...Jacques Necker, Louis XVI's famed moneyman, who virtually ran France. At 19, Germaine was married off to Sweden's Baron Eric Magnus de Staël-Holstein in a deal of unromantic grandeur under which 1) France gave Sweden the West Indian island of Saint-Barthélemy, 2) the King of Sweden gave Baron de Staël, who had rigged the gift, the plum post of Ambassador to Paris, 3) Banker Necker, who had refused to settle for a son-in-law below ambassadorial rank, gave daughter Germaine to Ambassador de Staël, along...
...address on Christ and the law, the Rev. Markus Barth, son of Swiss Theologian Karl Barth and a member of Chicago University's Federated Theological Faculty, developed the same theme. "Lawyers feel much more exposed to a conflict of conscience than most other people," he said. Some try to "keep their hands clean by becoming office lawyers," in hopes of escaping the "dirty work that might involve their own consciences." But "since Christ interceded for sinners," said Earth, "Christian lawyers therefore obey Christ's fulfilled law by pleading for sinners-that they may live and receive what...
Days Without Weather. Horner, just turned 28, has suffered a paralyzing case of "birthday despondency." A sinister Negro doctor brings him out of it. In describing the doctor's manifold therapies, Novelist Barth shows a true satirist's hatred for all the quackery visited by blind belief in the healing powers of science upon muddled, addled and wicked souls...
Comedy of Manners. Author Barth is assistant professor of English at Penn State and, unlike most teachers of English, he likes words well enough to play with them after school. His first novel, The Floating Opera, was runner-up for the 1957 National Book Award in fiction. Now The End of the Road reveals him as a very funny (but notably unfrivolous) writer...
...Barth has a good ear for the sort of psychologizing claptrap that passes for conversation in some circles. The earnest talk of the three academic friends is a comedy of manners in itself-almost on the level of Mary (The Groves of Academe) McCarthy or Randall (Pictures from an Institution) Jarrell. Barth is clearly one of the more interesting of younger U.S. writers and he has produced that rarity of U.S. letters-a true novel of ideas...