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...Reported by Brigid O'Hara-Forster/London, Andrew Meier and Yuri Zarakhovich/Moscow and Mark Thompson/Washington
Students of my generation were taught that E.M. Forster's Howards End is an important novel because its central dictum, "Only connect," is a prescription for the moral life. It was assumed that making connections was a sign of the mind's worth and purpose. Only connect; things fall apart; these fragments I have shored against my ruins. Perhaps this effort to bridge and yoke was a consequence of the big bad Bomb, and of a world growing up under the persistent threat of disintegration. Perhaps it was simply an invention of the academy in which exam questions insisted...
DIED. QUENTIN BELL, 86, British artist, author and noted biographer of his novelist aunt, Virginia Woolf; in Firle, England. Born into a Bloomsbury family, he became a chronicler of the famed intellectual group that included his aunt as well as E.M. Forster and Duncan Grant...
...London in 1990, is part of a Hare trilogy that includes Murmuring Judges, which scrutinizes England's legal system, and The Absence of War, examining its politics. If the entire venture has something of an old-fashioned feel--a kinship with those "condition of England" novels of Wells, Galsworthy, Forster--that's probably all right with Hare, 48. With these plays (and others, such as Plenty and Map of the World), he has embraced a theater of social and moral probing. By frequently setting one character to debating another (about the ordination of women, declining church attendance, the desirability...
...almost every chapter, an excerpt from a famous or important primary source is quoted. Sections of Havelock Ellis'Sexual Inversion, for example, explain the methods of the famed "sexologist." The unsettling passage from E.M. Forster's Maurice in which a troubled young man confesses his homosexuality to a dismissive, unsympathtic doctor sticks in the mind of the reader. While the use of primary sources in historical works is certainly not an original method, reading what intellectuals had to say about the gay experience of their era is invaluable to the reader's understanding...