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PEOPLE IN GLASS HOUSES by Shirley Hazzard. 179 pages. Knopf...
...stones, and such damage as they do is not to flesh but to sensibilities. Since the house is tall, stands on the bank of Manhattan's East River and is a monument to international good works, it may be as well to see it as U.N. headquarters. Shirley Hazzard calls it simply the Organization-though she worked at the U.N. for ten years. The characters represent many nations, but, above all, they represent one way of life. What they do and say provides a fictional counterpart to William Whyte's The Organization...
Roman Jakobson, Samuel Hazzard Cross Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, and General Linguistics, is retiring...
...EVENING OF THE HOLIDAY, by Shirley Hazzard. An artful and poetic first novel about the holiday affair of two not-too-young, not-too-attractive lovers in Italy...
...EVENING OF THE HOLIDAY, by Shirley Hazzard. A young novelist has chosen her words with such delicacy and precision that even the trite theme of a holiday affair between an inhibited, not-so-young Englishwoman and a smooth, not-so-young Italian architect has become a haunting and poetic tale...