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...heart from the purse, the ambitions from the conventions, the rigid rules of the game from the fibbing, cheating gambits of the desperate players. The game is tough often to the point of grimness, but it is always comedy, never tragedy. "Let other pens," wrote plain Jane coolly, "dwell on guilt and misery...
...most part, Barzun insists, the mystery story is in trouble. His explanation: the detective story is a "parasite" of the novel, and when the serious novel itself "concentrates on the whacky," as it does today, and "starts from the conviction that society and all who dwell in it are disagreeable and worthless," the detective story is simply thrown off its feed. Good detective fiction needs "a world that we accept because it is conventional . . . Why pursue the criminal if the victim and society are not worth protecting...
...people of John Cheever's stories dwell among the shifting symbols of success, where the status is very seldom quo. Most of them live in Manhattan or commute to its skyscraper hives, for that is where the honey is. But somehow their lives, loves and labors leave the cuprous taste of pennies in their mouths; the middle-income bracket is their social vise. Few writers have probed the masked anxieties of the "have-not-enoughs" with the skill and authority of John (The Wapshot Chronicle) Cheever, 46. After Marquand, he is the ablest chronicler of the interior life...
...Agnosticism, the experience of many seems to indicate, is not a state in which one can long dwell," President Pusey yesterday told the members of the Class of 1958 in the sermon of the Baccalaureate Service, "for trust we must in someone or something. The final answer must, we hope," Pusey concluded...
Women and cannibals eat Ihe same food -men. That, at any rate, is the acidulous theme of French Novelist Herve Bazin's A Tribe of Women. The four women who dwell at La Fouve, a windswept, French provincial Manderley, are sisters to the witches in Macbeth. They bubble and bubble, toil and make trouble...