Word: hartleys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...BETWEEN (311 pp.)-L P. Hartley-Knopf...
...ignoring the fact that Lord Trimingham is, in fact, not only a human being but a tragic one. He has returned from the South African war with a sickle-shaped scar across his face, a "down-weeping, blank eye," a twisted mouth that distorts his whole face, and (Author Hartley hints) some internal wound that has left him a man in appearance only. "But you mustn't say [you are sorry] to him, or to Marian either," the younger son of the house tells Leo, his house guest. "Mama wouldn't like it . . . Mama wants Marian to marry...
Gently, skillfully, Author Hartley conducts his tense story to a bitter end, making its adult drama the more effective by framing it always in the eye of a child. He paints a near-perfect picture of country-house life at the turn of the century-its etiquette, its croquet and cricket matches, its exact relation to classes and countries outside its own. He also has a simple tune to play on his symbols-for Leo (the lion) stands for a young England ignorant of the social upheaval that the new century is destined to bring in. with such lawbreakers...
...worth study by anyone who wants to know where English fiction is heading nowadays. No other novel of recent years is a better example of English writing at its contemporary peak of stylized, aristocratic poise-never a flubbed phrase, never a pothole in the smooth course. Author Leslie Poles Hartley, a Harrow-and-Oxford man with six finely finished novels behind him (Eustace and Hilda and The Boat), was born in 1895-roughly contemporary with the late great D. H. Lawrence-and the theme of The Go-Between is pretty much that of Lady Chatterley's Lover...
Hurry & Anxiety. Four hours after the strike began, the White House asked Mitchell to round up a fact-finding board, paving the way for a Taft-Hartley injunction. Big Jim Mitchell, recognized as one of the country's top labor-relations men (for New York's Macy's and Bloomingdale's) before he went to Washington, lined up the board. But he did more: he called C.I.O. General Counsel Art Goldberg to talk settlement...