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Archibald Joseph Cronin (Hatter's Castle, The Citadel, The Keys of the Kingdom) is a zealous Scots Catholic who is never happier than when he is drawing moral conclusions from immoral behavior. But until he was 34, Cronin suppressed his urge to self-expression and buried himself in the "sensible . . . safe and practical" pursuit of medicine. The result was just the opposite of what Dr. Cronin had hoped it would be: the more patients he attended, the more he "kept thinking . . . what stories I could make of them...
Bomb of Love. The novel was Hatter's Castle. It was the first time Dr. Cronin had ever written anything except "prescriptions and scientific papers," and he thumped it out in the same mood of mingled desperation and "sheer willpower" that he had felt as a struggling medical student. Hatter's Castle was a labor of love and spiritual rejuvenation-and it hit the bestseller lists like a bomb. In no time, Author Cronin found himself richer and more fashionable than he had been at the height of his asthenic heyday. And the more he wrote, the more...
...have insulted your readers. Who among you was the Mad Hatter who was responsible for this tricky treachery! Or has the choosing of the Man of the Year become a frivolous, foolish, fantastic game indulged in by your irresponsibles...
...prompts Disney to revive the style of his Silly Symphonies. Yet there is plenty to delight youngsters, and there are flashes of cartooning ingenuity that should appeal to grownups. Funniest sequence: the famed mad tea party, which proves rollicking, not out of fidelity to Carroll, but because the Mad Hatter and the March Hare are faithful to Ed Wynn and Jerry Colonna, who speak the roles...
...Hatter or Poet? Keats never had things easy. His father, a stableman, died when Keats was nine, and his mother remarried, unhappily. The boy's guardian was a stern merchant who mistrusted poetry on principle, and thought John would be better off as a hatter...