Word: irises
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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THE FLIGHT FROM THE ENCHANTER (316 pp.)-Iris Murdoch-Viking ($3.75)..75).
Iris Murdoch, Oxford don, is as rare a thing in modern writing as Dr. Johnson's bipedally ambulatory dog. *She is not just a woman novelist, which is not rare, or a woman philosopher (teaching at Oxford's St. Anne's), which is somewhat rare, but a...
Biggest Puzzle. Patrick is a kind of dilettante snowman, "detached to the point of selfishness in his chosen serenity . . . his violin-playing, his botany, his photography, his collection of Cretan ikous." Corfu thaws him out-first with a throb of color from its sapphire sea and sky, orange groves and...
Patrick soon runs an erotic fever of his own over a nubile, neo-pagan teenager named Soula. Little more than fugitive kisses and caresses, the affair with Soula is tragically complicated by the fact that her brother Stavro, a boy with crypto-homosexual longings, feels he should rank first in...
And instead of plastic, he uses a glass lens. Only 5 mm. in diameter, the circular lens has wings (Schreck calls them "bridges") that give it an overall width of 11½ to 13½ mm., according to the size of the eyeball. The wings fit into the angles where...