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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...longing for reason and "the rediscovery of a common idiom, for order, morality and valid measures." Out of this need arose the Order of . Eastern Wayfarers, a semi-religious body composed originally of scholars and musicians. Members were chosen as students, sent to elite schools, from which only the best were selected to become members of the Order. Since they were not allowed to marry, they were much favored as lovers in the towns where they received their training; after they became members, they followed lives of chastity. But to the biographer of the future, sex is of little interest...
...BEST OF INTENTIONS (314 pp.)-Robert Molloy-Llpplncott...
...Best of Intentions begins as Joe is planning a love affair with a girl he met at the opera. The problem is: how to get out of the house on Sunday without the whole family finding...
Whose Lead Quarter? The Best of Intentions is Joe's confession, not of his sins, but of his frustrations-the fights he backed out of, the infidelities unconsummated, the arguments with the salesman who tried to sell him a suit he didn't want and with the cafeteria cashier who refused to take back a lead quarter...
...became a popular novelist and wrote a book in which he found himself pictured as a tough guy, with quaint phrases and vague literary aspirations. It was true enough to make him wince and wrong enough to make him sore. Readers may feel somewhat the same way about The Best of Intentions. Its artificiality lies in the vagueness and unreality of Joe Moreton apart from, his adolescent and middle-aged embarrassments. The latter may have been real enough, but they are less than the whole of life, even in Manhattan...