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Heaven or the Other Place. As a writer, he declined in the last years of his life. In The Virginians, Lovel the Widower and Philip he merely demonstrated the half-truth of a later dictum that "all authors are musical-boxes which play a limited number of tunes." And yet. at the time of his death he was, like Dickens with Edwin Drood and Stevenson with Weir of Hermiston, midway through what remained a brilliant fragment-Denis Duval, Dickens considered it "the best of all his works...
Better Than Confidential. Professor Martin's exam paper ended by inviting examinees to comment on the Wise Guy's speech, "trying to show where he spoke the truth, where he spoke half-truth, and where he spoke nonsense...
...Psychoanalyst Edmund Bergler. In Homosexuality: Disease or Way of Life? (Hill and Wang; $5), published last week, he swiftly demolishes some popular misconceptions. The common definition of a homosexual as one who "derives his sexual excitement and satisfaction from a person of his own sex" is less than a half-truth, says Bergler, because 1) it accepts a kind of parity between homosexuals and heterosexuals, "and hence becomes a useful argument in the homosexuals' advocacy of their perversion"; 2) it ignores the fact that certain personality traits, partly or entirely psychopathic, are specifically and exclusively characteristic of homosexuals...
...British newsmen agree that the royal family, now almost openly hostile to the press, is at least partly to blame. Royal public relations are handled through a Press Secretariat whose tight-lipped refusal to discuss even a Balmoral barbecue forces newsmen to patch up stories from gossip, invention and half-truth. Important royal events outside the palace, complain reporters, are usually handled by bumbling local officials. Only when newsmen threatened to boycott Princess Margaret's recent African tour in mid-trip was she allowed to make news by mingling with the natives, thus realize the tour's main...
...diplomats, Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean, took the 11:45 p.m. boat from Southampton to St. Malo, France, and disappeared in the direction of the Iron Curtain. Last fall Her Majesty's Stationery Office issued the official story of their defection (TIME, Oct. 3). The report's half-truth was accepted as a polite fiction. Now Novelist Richard Llewellyn (How Green Was My Valley) seems to offer some fiction as the impolite truth...