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...FROST IN MAY by Antonia White Dial; 221 pages...
British Novelist Antonia White, who died in 1980 at 81, attended a school like Lippington (formal name: the Convent of the Five Wounds) with handicaps like Nanda's: she was the daughter of a classics master who had just converted to Roman Catholicism. Her autobiographical Frost in May, first published in 1933, has just appeared here in paperback, along with three sequels. As Elizabeth Bowen writes in the introduction, it is one of the best school novels ever written...
...weakness is for melodrama. A little of this occurs in her first novel, well covered by the hard accuracy of the setting and the characters. The conflict between father and daughter almost saves The Lost Traveller. The later books, which introduce cardboard men, are too high-flown. But in Frost in May, White wrote a permanent, crystalline book about a vanished world and a universal experience. -By Martha Duffy
...became a rack of pipes, a Bellini bust of a Young Boy, a first, signed edition of Frost's North of Boston. This man had everything! And I had lost him! Never, never would I be able to find a man like that again...
...Frost & Sullivan Inc., of New York, produces weighty monthly surveys of 61 countries, based on field reports from local correspondents. A yearly subscription to the firm's "World Political Risk Forecasts" costs $1,900, and clients include some 200 of the nation's largest corporations, including AT&T, Xerox, General Motors and General Electric...