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First baseman Dick Dingley, the only lefty baseman in the lineup, second baseman Howie Burnett, captain and center fielder Moose McGrath, and right fielder Bucky Harris have proven the most dangerous Amherst sluggers to date...
Darkness and Day, by Ivy Compton-Burnett. Further astonishing dilemmas of some of Compton-Burnett's genteel English characters; contrived mainly to let the characters gossip unconventionally about life, death and each other (TIME, March...
Darkness and Day, by Ivy Compton-Burnett. Further astonishing dilemmas of some of Compton-Burnett's genteel English characters; contrived mainly to let the characters gossip unconventionally about life, death and each other (TIME, March...
Darkness and Day is modeled pretty much on the same plan as every other Compton-Burnett novel (this is her twelfth). Incest, illegitimacy and the pangs of growing old are merely the convenient props for her main interest: what a variegated cast of characters have to say about life & death and each other...
...gossip to offer in exchange. Naturally, the domestic service is not always what it might be, but nobody really cares, because everybody is too deeply engaged in talking. "We seem to be living in a play," protests one respectable young lady. And so they are, with Stage Manager Compton-Burnett keeping comedy always slightly ahead of tragedy, and fashioning surprise endings for some of her characters' more startling dilemmas that could almost be called happy-but for the fact that the solutions often raise dilemmas as startling as the ones they solve. Her highly polished little plays...