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FICTION 1. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, Le Carre (1 last week) 2. The Group, McCarthy (2) 3. The Venetian Affair, Maclnnes (3) 4. The Wapshot Scandal, Cheever (6) 5. The Hat on the Bed, O'Hara (4) 6. The Martyred, Kim (5) 7. Von Ryan's Express, Westheimer (8) 8. The Shoes of the Fisherman, West (7) 9. The Fanatic, Levin 10. The Night of the Generals, Kirst...
...Cheever's Credo Sir: A garland of bay leaves to TIME for the very revealing insight into the charismatic soul of Author Cheever [March 27] who appears to be basically idealistic as opposed to the majority of the perverted authors on the contemporary scene who advocate nihilism as their credo. I particularly appreciated his succinct and moralistic Metamorphoses. ANN PAPASTEFAN Cudahy...
...been the subject of his most bitter domestic story theorems. The most famous of these is The Well-Educated American Woman. The fable speaks for all men who think their wives are too busy with public events to cook, look after their children and love their husbands. When Cheever gave reign to his worst fears (a child dies of fever because mother was at a meeting), Mary didn't take this too much to heart: "I did go to one or two meetings of the League of Women Voters, but I do think he should not have killed...
...Cheevers have three children. Susan, 20, is a junior at Pembroke; Ben, 15, is at the Scarborough School; and Frederico, 7, goes to a local elementary school. The family moved to Scarborough, a heavily wooded community just south of Ossining, in 1950, renting what Cheever describes as a "remodeled tool shed" on the huge estate of Frank A. Vanderlip Sr., onetime president of the National City Bank. After M-G-M bought The Housebreaker of Shady Hill for around $40,000 in 1956 (it was never made into a movie), the Cheevers took off for a year in Italy, returned...
...tweed, gin, and torn commuter tickets in the stuff of John Cheever's fiction, his stories carry the ancient authority of a faith that good and evil are not merely words, that grace rewards with joy on earth those who obey the gods, and that a Miltonic "chaos and old night" full of vengeful demons awaits the defiant and unruly. He has a long view in which...