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Meeting baseball writers as a group for the first time since his paralyzing auto accident last January, Dodger Catcher Roy Campanella spoke with undiminished spirit through a microphone suspended from his neck brace. Over the previous weekend, he had been home for the first time with his wife and children, and it was "the best medicine I've had." At Manhattan's N.Y.U.-Bellevue Medical Center, his daily routine includes lifting 17-lb. sandbags, breathing oxygen to help his respiration and speech. "I can feed myself," he boasted, "and that's a big thing. You hate...
What, asks Lewis, are Christians to make of such vitriol? In his provocatively chatty Reflections on the Psalms (Harcourt, Brace; $3.75), the wise and witty Oxford don argues that such embarrassments should not simply be ignored. Remembering that all Holy Scripture is "written for our learning" and that "Our Lord's mind and language were clearly steeped in the Psalter," Lewis prefers to make "some use" of the curses. One of their uses, he found, is to call attention to the same hatreds in modern man's own heart-"we are, after all, blood brothers to these ferocious...
Separate Tables is actually a brace of plays with the same locale--Table by the Window and Table Number Seven--each dealing with a different type of loneliness, and each, aside from the two leads, employing the same set of characters. There is plenty of humor, but the themes are basically serious...
AROUND THE WORLD WITH AUNTIE MAME (286 pp.)-Patrick Dennis-Har-court, Brace...
...ROAD TO WIGAN PIER (264 pp.)-George Orwell - Harcourt, Brace...