Word: conway
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Edward Estlin (e.e.) Cummings, 67, popular American poet who scattered syntax to collect bright images; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in North Conway, N.H. (see page...
Lepers & Straitjackets. William Conway is not an easy case to diagnose. His adult life has shown only the characteristic dislocations of his age and time: the shock of World War II. a defunct marriage, a lucrative brokerage business to which he has become partly committed without any particular conviction. "It was a life," Conway sums it up. "one did not for instance interrupt in order to go out and nurse lepers. You knew the odds were you would get leprosy and become a burden to the nuns." At 41, Conway does not know where he is heading. He is troubled...
...skillful interplay between distant memory and recent reflection upon it, Author Scott makes clear that Conway the man has become as predictably modern as Conway the boy was dutifully post-Victorian. He has long since rejected not only his icy. withdrawn father but Mother India as well...
...caught and tortured by the Japanese in Malaya, he counsels them, ''Hang on to your lives," wondering as he does so if he should have said "courage," then swiftly dismissing the thought with a snappish phrase: "But that is all fable." Stuffed Symbols. Despite this, Conway finds himself teased, almost obsessed, by his childhood's most sensual memory-the vision of an Indian summerhouse full of perfectly stuffed birds of paradise, those rare and fabulous creatures about which it was once believed that because they were too beautiful for earth, they had no feet and so must...
...story's end, Conway glimpses the fact that his inheritance is not all debilitating humbug. From father he has at least unwittingly acquired an urge to be of service. And, in a world of increasingly measured motives and sternly allotted psychological pigeonholes, he can not shake off an India-given sense of the mystery and the marvelous confusion of the world. The Birds of Paradise is a rare literary bird, a novel that in a short space re-creates a man's lifetime. Using exotic backgrounds, it manages to say something useful about growing up-a process that...