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...Backward Glance describes instead the last years in France, when she was already a legend, hostess to most of France's literary lights (although she never sought out Proust, whose work she admired, because she suspected him of being a "climber"). Her enormous output (42 novels) yielded her easily $75,000 a year. Yet the feeling of nonbelonging, she confesses, never really left her. Looking back, she saw herself as the last survivor of a civilization "as remote as Atlantis or the lowest layer of Schliemann's Troy...
Woodrow Wilson Sayre, 45, a ruggedly handsome fellow with boyish charm, is President Wilson's grandson as well as a mountain climber, best-selling author (Four Against Everest), playwright, pianist, amateur architect, and onetime Democratic congressional candidate from California. He is also a hero to his philosophy students at Tufts University in Medford, Mass. Sayre, in fact, is just about everything except a scholar who can measure his monographs by the pound, and for that reason he was fighting for his job last week...
With his short, rotund figure and his spade beard, Professor Norbert Wiener of M.I.T. looked like a harmless Santa Claus. Instead he bristled with versatility. He was a top-rank mathematician who fathered a new branch of science, an enthusiastic mountain climber, and a facile writer of both fiction and philosophy. He could talk intelligently on almost any subject. When he died of a heart attack in Stockholm last week, his colleagues the world over testified to a special sense of loss. For Wiener was one of a vanishing crew-a first-rate scientist whose curiosity and skills covered...
Every member of the Harvard group is an accomplished mountain climber. Abrons has previously climbed Mt. McKinley by another approach...
...story gas tower. The farther he climbs, the more terrified he becomes of the heaving ground below. When he reaches the top, he discovers that the last dozen rungs are missing. The dislocation he feels-suspended between earth and air, past and future-suggests those other climbers of various social structures who fear to edge their way down but who can never quite find room at the top. Sansom leaves his climber clinging to the uppermost rung, "shivering and past knowing what more he could ever...