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...though it has not shown up in your mail service. Now even the legislative progress has been halted by White House intervention. Last June a bill was introduced into the House of Representatives designed to make the postal system once again viable and effective. Its authors are James M. Hanley of New York and Charles H. Wilson of California, who over the years have taken a great deal of testimony and initiated considerable research in order to write this new bill. In October 1977 the bill was cleared by the House postal committee by a vote...
...DREAM JOURNEY by JAMES HANLEY 368 pages. Horizon Press...
...James Hanley, 75, is one of the best-known little-known writers now at work. Over the course of his long career he has been praised by such disparate souls as T.E. Lawrence and E.M. Forster. Novelists and reviewers periodically puzzle over the obscurity that has accompanied Hanley's high critical reputation. Yet the matter is not terribly mysterious. He throws no sops to fashion or to the ease of his readers. Hanley's essential subject is a darkness that most people would rather whistle through: the abrasions of living that wear away spirit and soul. A Dream...
...symbiosis of Clem and Lena is hardly a compelling matter, and Hanley's narrative does little to pique the reader. He lets his principals do the talking, and, like most victims of accidents. Clem and Lena have a cloudy sense of what hit them. They are well-versed in their own weaknesses, but not on the whys and hows of their lives. A rare visitor to their room registers an outside opinion on what the two have accomplished: "In the wasteland he saw a curious mixture of loyalty and stupidity...
Both loyalty and stupidity can be tiresome over the long haul, and Hanley's haul takes place over 368 relentless pages. The artist's death, near the end, gives his wife one of the few chances to make a genuinely moving speech: "1 knew my husband was a failure three long years ago, but you don't just walk out on a person just because they turn out to be second rate ... There's more to a man than that." Hanley wrests such epiphanies from meager raw materials, and it is easy to commend his skill...