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What Martin has actually done is to become one more proponent of the fantasy art of childhood, for his nightmarish but strangely fascinating dwellings were inspired by his own boyhood home with all its sheltering cosiness and frightening mysteries. "You can penetrate into the heart of the work, which seems important to me. It's like the pleasure of walking in a park." And what does one find after penetrating into a Dwelling? "Why, oneself, of course," says Etienne-Martin...
Sharp Blade. Then the Italians settled down to play. In the doubles, Pietrangeli's finesse and Sirola's power combined for a 3-6, 10-8, 6-4, 6-8, 6-4 victory over Buchholz and his boyhood partner from St. Louis, stocky Chuck McKinley, 19. Next day Pietrangeli kept Italy alive by using patty-ball tactics to befuddle the slugging Buchholz, 6-1, 6-2, 6-8, 3-6, 6-4. That put the team score at 2-2 and set up a showdown between MacKay and Sirola, two of the hardest hitters in tennis...
...GOOD LIGHT, by Karl Bjarnhof. A sequel to the blind Danish author's autobiographical novel of boyhood (The Stars Grow Pale) that is every bit as good as the first. The walls imposed by sightlessness and the desperate efforts to break through to contact with the life of the seeing are described with candor and beauty, without sentimentality or self-pity...
...EDGE OF DAY, by Laurie Lee. An English poet describes his poverty-stricken boyhood in Britain's Cotswolds with great good humor and lyrical delight...
...power dams, and the author, who writes well of the region's wildlife and wild living, tells of a three-week solo canoe trip he made as a farewell gesture. Summoned by Bells, by John Betjeman. In a charming autobiography in verse, the author tells of a boyhood and young manhood that were unremarkable except for the pain, joy and insight that go with being a poet...