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Fowles got the idea for his plot from a true incident in 1957 when a young Englishman kidnaped a girl and kept her prisoner for 105 days before she was rescued. This kind of perversion is not generally the stuff of high tragedy, but Fowles has made it so. Clegg is the perfect embodiment of modern evil: dull, implacable, without compassion because he is always rationalizing his cruelty. The evil he does is all the more agonizing because his victim is so engagingly brimful of life; and Clegg is so heedless of individual life that before the novel ends...
...Contrary Experience, by Herbert Read. A singular Englishman with a gift for plural and paradoxical living-he has been both a pacifist and a decorated soldier, an anarchist and a successful bureaucrat-British Critic Read tells the rich and readable story of his lives...
...earned a decoration for gallantry in battle, an anarchist who has been a successful bureaucrat, a farmer's son who is famous as an exponent of esthetic theory, a spokesman for the avant-garde who can nevertheless write in praise of an idyllic past. The typical Englishman who is all these things is Sir Herbert Read, 69, a highly singular man who needs not one but four autobiographies to do justice to his talent for plural living...
...catch onto the American way of doing business, but many-particularly the British, who are investing heavily in U.S. real estate-complain of the tangle of U.S. laws and of the need to have a battery of high-priced lawyers always on hand to interpret them. Snorted an exasperated Englishman: "In England, lawyers tend to be kept in their proper place as advisers." It may surprise U.S. businessmen, but foreign companies make few complaints about U.S. labor. In fact, Takuji Ohshimo, executive director of the Japanese-owned Alaska Lumber & Pulp Co., finds negotiating with U.S. unions a relief. "Their demands...
Wain is a traditional Englishman, but the kind from which little has been heard because the tradition he comes from is itself unliterary. His family came from a pottery town in Staffordshire. John's father, a dentist with a working-class practice, represented the highest social class in generations of potters and peasants. The family ,was more miserable than the really poor and more deluded than those who shared the attitudes of England's traditional rulers...