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...Siri Hustvedt is an impressive new talent. THE BLINDFOLD (Poseidon; $20), her series of tales about an alienated young woman in New York, draws the reader compellingly into the odd consciousness of the narrator and heroine, Iris. Hustvedt's characters are hypnotized by their own dangerous, barely understood impulses. A writer hires Iris to describe the possessions of a girl he thinks he may have murdered. In a later story, Iris dons men's clothing and spends months prowling downtown Manhattan at night, as though drawn onward by the Imp of the Perverse. Relationships, like everything else in Hustvedt...
...touch of a button her blond, urbane skipper, Captain Olaf Mandt Hustvedt, gave her the works. Her answer was a belching, searing flame, the shattering roar of the heaviest broadside ever fired by any warship of any Navy on any sea. All nine of the 16-in. guns in her main battery, tripled in turrets each of which weighs more than many a destroyer, answered the Old Man. Ten of her secondary battery of 20 five-inchers simultaneously blasted the night. North Carolina took it as it came, shook her head and plowed...
...Ballad Books and Ballad Men" is the title of 327 page work of Sigurd Bernhard Hustvedt. The author puts forth in this volume a survey of ballad men, from Sir Walter Scott to Francis James Child '46, who was the predecessor of G.L. Kittredge '82 as Gurney Professor of English Literature. Two chapters are devoted to the contemporaneous story of Scandinavian balladry, particularly in its relation to the labors of Child. Appendixes present a large store of illuminating documents, hitherto unpublished, from the correspondence of Child and the Danish editor Grunting...
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