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...Museum Trips" from a forthcoming book by Carl Nagin is a short, funny story about a visit to the Fogg. In the Modern Art Room Rocko and the Narrator meet an employee who "wouldn't givya a nickel" for the $70,000 Brancusi wood sculpture Caryatid, which he calls Mrs. Murphy's Bedpost. He calls a Jackson Pollack "that horror over there" and says it was hung on its side last month, but he likes Olitski's Ariosto's Kiss because the "painting seems to move." They visit the Persian Rug Room twice, but the rugs are on the wall...
...overall these are minor faults. Sons of Darkness, Sons of Light is a novel to be read. It is only a few notches below The Man Who Cried I Am, and that still makes for gripping reading. The frontispiece of the book claims that Sons of Darkness, Sons of Light is a novel of some probability. Reading the novel will not lessen the chances of that probability becoming fact, but at least the reader will be prepared...
...strengths, the novel also has its faults. Its ending, for instance. leaves one vaguely disappointed. Everything ends too well for the central characters. Browning, the Don. and Hod all emerge unscathed by the events of the book-as if. after The Man Who Cried I Am, Williams wanted to write a book that would end happily, or at least, not tragically. At the novel's end, the domestic scene is still exploding and another perhaps final international war (the United States versus China) is imminent: but the central characters have been removed from the scene of action...
...defense. Of course, the runners are going to have to find a way to get by people like Ed Sadler. Gary Farneti, Dale Neal, and their friends. Two linebackers who may slow down Harvard's rushing a bit are Pat Hughes and Fritz McNeily. listed in the B.U. sports book as a "solid ballplayer." Tight for awhile, but then Frank Champi is likely to surprise us. Watch out for a lot of Crimson passing and a lot of Crimson cheering about a 21-7 victory...
Generally, however, the book lacks the searching view that would have deepened our understanding of the trial's meaning. Moderately contemptuous of the law, the author is also, unfortunately, only moderately knowledgeable about it. She has obviously relied on the expertise of her lawyer husband, but she seems only to have asked him specific questions. There is no deep exploration of the law's underlying rationale. Kittenish phrases crop up-"for some unfathomable reason known only to lawyers and judges"-which would be acceptable enough if the fathoms of the law were not clearly the business...