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...point of no return when he draws his first breath. In later years, during the inevitable, muted crises, he will ask himself where he took the decisive turn. Was it the school he went to? The wife he married, or did not marry? The job he took? His creator, one of the best social novelists the U.S.has produced, considered these questions vital. Again and again, he said that men are shaped by their environment, and no writer could match him in describing the environments that cradled or smothered, polished or abraded, buoyed or drowned his heroes...
George Apley may have been a snob-but he also had something for which his creator had undisguised admiration: "Essential and undeviating discipline of background." Wickford Point came even closer to home. It was the story of a popular writer, a Harvard graduate, reacting against the decadence and futile ancestor worship of his tumble-down New England family. And if the hero had the unmistakable air of the author himself-the pipe-smoking, tweedy, dressed-by-Brooks-Brothers blueblood-the hero's family was also unquestionably Marquand...
...Durrell range is as wide as his restless experience of life. Father of two daughters, he writes charmingly of children "Cast down like asterisks among their toys," and as a veteran of stormy marriages and the creator of smoldering Justine, it is not surprising to find him writing...
...yoga technique." Dechanet is also on guard against the danger that the practice of yoga turns him toward "the Self, the It, the Absolute, the Wholly-One, the vague 'Ungraspable' of Hindu mystics" instead of toward "the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the living God, my Creator and Father." What Dechanet set out to do when he first began to practice yoga in his early 40s was not to turn it into something Christian, but to use it for Christian purposes. His main Christian purpose: to harmonize the three elements in man which the early church fathers...
...Malvolio preens like a toad in yellow stockings. Hotspur wells blood. In soliloquy and song, in bantering bawdry and scalp-tingling rhetoric, in the kingliest English and in tender or rough translation, they speak to man from mankind's heart. Never in the nearly 400 years since their creator was born have Shakespeare's characters spoken to so many, or meant so much. Nowhere do they mean more than at the three Stratfords-in England, Canada...