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July 31--Dorese Iris ($5.50)
THE PHILOSOPHER'S PUPIL by Iris Murdoch; Viking; 576 pages; $17.75
This is Iris Murdoch's 21st novel. Her fecundity is remarkable, but even more so is the manner in which she has written her books. Allegory, that stately, illustrated progress toward foregone conclusions, worked best in ages of faith, when author and readers agreed on the subjects of good...
The signal political success for bilingualism has been won at the U.S. Department of Education. After the Supreme Court ruled in 1974 that Chinese-speaking students were entitled to some instruction in a language they could understand, the DOE issued "informal" rules that now bind more than 400 school districts...
There is the overwhelming sexual frankness, and the refusal to idealize the body's postures; Rodin's poses do not belong to earlier sculpture. Then, finally, there is the fragmentation of the body itself as a sculptural object. Rodin's work was permeated by his love of...