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DIED. Taylor Caldwell, 84, prodigious, best-selling author whose more than 40 books, mostly intricately plotted historico- romantic melodramas liberally peopled with schemers and rogues, including Dear and Glorious Physician (1959), Testimony of Two Men (1968) and Captains and the Kings (1972), delighted her legions of fans but drew the contumely of critics for their outsize characterizations, empurpled prose and increasingly far-right political views; in Greenwich, Conn...
...CRIMSON'S Literary Supplement of Dec. 5, 1959 included an historico-critical survey, "Playwriting at Harvard: 1690-1960." The brief concluding section on faculty playwriting, set up in type, was not printed, owing to space restrictions, and was then inadvertently shelved. Belatedly, we herewith print the remaining paragraphs...
With so much dough riding the throw, Duvivier carefully hedged his bet. His script tore down Tolstoy's complex scaffolding of historico-religious theory, eliminated the subplots, preserved only the central study of a falling woman, with a few glimpses of the high society she fell from. This might have been sufficient if the film had also saved a suggestion of the dreadful glacier-creep of Tolstoy's characterization. Instead, the camera work is uniformly uninspired, and the psychological glacier dissolves into teary slush...
...small but increasingly respectable group of U. S. historico-pastoral novelists (some of them: Willa Gather, Elizabeth Madox Roberts, T. S. Stribling. ''Maristan" Chapman), Author LeRoy MacLeod is not smallest or least respectable. The Years of Peace, his second novel, is quietly & fully written. Like any well-told story of the past, it seems truer than history...
...DECLINE OF THE WEST-Oswald Spengler - Translated by Charles Francis Atkinson-Knopf ($6). The U. S. publication of what is commonly regarded as the outstanding historico-philosophical treatise of 20th Century Germany is an item of import to be noted if not investigated by the average man. The book itself, of a profoundly speculative nature, will have to pass through numerous academic abridgments and crystallizations before it can touch the consciousness of the mass of Western mankind, of whose ideational processes it tells. In its own words, "The attempt is made for the first time to determine history in advance...