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Dates: during 1970-1979
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MARK HELPRIN LOOKS well-scrubbed. His face, in a vaguely romantic photograph on the back of the dust jacket, is clean-cut and clean-shaven; the face of a liberal, New York-bred college graduate. It comes as no surprise is that he went to Harvard. What is more of a surprise is that he once served in the British merchant navy, the Israeli infantry, and the Israeli Air Force. In the title story, "A Dove of the East," and in others scattered throughout the book, Helprin re-creates the people and places of his travels. The settings of these...

Author: By Holly Gorman, | Title: Slow Beauty and No Talk | 12/9/1975 | See Source »

Especially children's books. At the Christmas season hundreds of new volumes beckon, each with an appealing dust jacket, each with the promise of juvenile delight. It is only upon close examination that the fantasy turns out to be a dream of Ebenezer Scrooge: volumes shaped like rabbits, turtles-everything but books; "relevant" accounts of crime and strife; the latest data on the making of babies-but little about the meaning of love. Still, along the shelves a few items always glitter-works that will be read and reread long after the backs and covers are coated with crayon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: CHILDREN'S BOOKS | 12/8/1975 | See Source »

...History of the Eskimos emerged from the printer as Decline and Fall in 1928. Waugh, at 24, had found his calling as a master of black comedy and satire. Other novels, among them Vile Bodies, A Handful of Dust and Black Mischief, followed regularly throughout the '30s, always in Waugh's elegant, crystalline style. He traveled adventurously, a fascinated observer of the often comic clash between primitive and advanced cultures. From a newspaper assignment to cover the Italian invasion of Ethiopia, he got the material for Scoop, still a hilarious guide to the adrenaline world of journalism. Much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Waugh Stories | 12/8/1975 | See Source »

Apparently, most of the players prefer to play three yards and a cloud of dust, and are simply unable to comprehend, let alone execute, Restic's shifts, reshifts, and counter-shifts. As a result, they refused to practice under Restic, and demanded a coach whose favorite plays were the Statue of Liberty and "everybody out, hit the open...

Author: By Michael K. Savit, | Title: Savoir-Faire | 11/20/1975 | See Source »

...illumines both the depth and power of Wharton's feelings for Fullerton and her yearning to escape the solitude that afflicted her before she met him. Initially unsure of his reaction to her, Wharton writes: My poor 'ame close' barred its shutters and bolted its doors again, and the dust gathered and the cobwebs thickened in the empty rooms, where for a moment I had heard an echo. Later, "now deeply, helplessly in love," she finds her personality being "swept away" by his, and wonders with fright, in Lewis's words, "whether it might not be the destiny of women...

Author: By Julia M. Klein, | Title: Through A Dusty Window | 11/20/1975 | See Source »

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