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Calm v. Passion. Arthur Winner marries again. Clarissa is tall, athletic and thirtyish, an avid latecomer to the art of love. The hour of that art which the couple share in Cozzens' pages has not been paralleled for clinical candor in U.S. fiction since Edmund Wilson singed the censors with Memoirs of Hecate County. Yet Lawyer Winner has a more demanding love-the law. The law is his passion precisely because it rules out passion. He is comforted by its seductive repose, "that majestic calm of reason designed to curb all passions or enthusiasms of emotion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Hermit of Lambertville | 9/2/1957 | See Source »

...Austria's Vorarlberg. The people are nearly as cosmopolitan as Author Zilliacus herself (she has Swedish, Polish, Finnish and American blood), and their luck is uniformly bad. Placid Maria is forced into marriage with a Russian count; lovely Lisa's husband dies in the war; reckless Clarissa gets pregnant by a social inferior; Polish Teresa lets her fiance go rather than subject him to Communism; headstrong Rosemary's lover already has a wife; Pianist Anne-Marie loses her man to the priesthood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Nonconformist | 7/1/1957 | See Source »

Letting the rest of the world go by, Britain's ex-Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden and wife Clarissa basked on the sunny strand of New Zealand's subtropic Otehei Bay, a favorite operating base for deep-sea fishermen. Eden, still bedded periodically by his gall-bladder ailment, left Britain in mid-January...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 1, 1957 | 4/1/1957 | See Source »

...London's Royal Albert Dock a drawn and ailing man, with his wife at his side, boarded the 16,000-ton cargo liner Rangitata. Sir Anthony Eden and his wife Clarissa were New Zealand-bound. Earlier Eden had postponed an official trip there; upon his resignation, the New Zealand government warmly renewed the invitation on a personal basis. "Godspeed to you all," said Eden to assembled well-wishers as his ship sailed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Push Ahead | 1/28/1957 | See Source »

...opposite the Victorian pile of the Museum of Natural History, where another car waited. A slim, feminine figure in a red cossack hat and pale, loose coat, and carrying a yellow hatbox, jumped out of the waiting car and got into Eden's car. As the door closed, Clarissa Eden opened the hatbox, took out a small cushion and tucked it behind her husband's head. From a following car, newsmen could see Eden's head roll tiredly from side to side on the cushion as the car roared at 60 miles an hour toward Chequers, carrying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: The Chosen Leader | 1/21/1957 | See Source »

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