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...Education of Arthur Winner. By Love Possessed (570 pp.; Harcourt. Brace; $5) is reared on a theme from the 17th century metaphysical poet Fulke Greville: "Passion and reason, selfe-division cause." This theme is developed almost musically, but it is the austere music of a Bach fugue, architectonic, contrapuntal, slow, majestic, sometimes irritatingly tedious, always impressive if not steadily arresting. It is played in a minor key, for this is a bitter comedy sounding life's black notes. The prevailing mood is irony, starting with the title itself. In Cozzens' meaning, "possessed" stands for "seized...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Hermit of Lambertville | 9/2/1957 | See Source »

LOVE AMONG THE CANNIBALS, by Wright Morris (253 pp.; Harcourt, Brace; $3.50), carries built-in advertising. At one point, the protagonist rhapsodizes: "Old lecher with a love on every wind, and you young ones too, running in pimpled packs after the teen-age bitch with her perfumed heat, and you, too, pretty matron, under the hair dryer, this is your book...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mixed Fiction, Aug. 19, 1957 | 8/19/1957 | See Source »

MEMORIES OF A CATHOLIC GIRLHOOD (245 pp.)-Mary McCarthy-Harcourt Brace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poor Roy's Child | 5/20/1957 | See Source »

...answer is. invariably, "Sorry, we're full up." Last week, shocked to discover this discrimination policy, Lord Altrincham resigned. "One of the reasons that you have given me for maintaining this iniquitous state of affairs," he said in a bitter letter to League Chairman Admiral Sir Cecil Harcourt, "is that you do not want to alienate the South Africans. Instead of setting an example, we are allowing ourselves to be influenced by a nation whose theory and practice of race relations is condemned by liberal opinion throughout the world." "The club," huffed Admiral Harcourt in response, "is not suitable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Rebel on the Right | 4/8/1957 | See Source »

...BLACK OBELISK (434 pp.)-Erich Maria Remarque - Harcourt, Brace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fatherland Remembered | 4/8/1957 | See Source »

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