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One has to be careful with a Murdoch ending: Is she, perhaps, spoofing the conventional novel as well as the curative powers of love? Yes, but her occasional barbs are more like twinges of a habit not yet kicked. This is a well-written and well-meant novel of lovers...
THE NICE AND THE GOOD by Iris Murdoch. 378 pages. Viking. $5.75.
It is a compliment to the mischievous skill of Iris Murdoch that her ten previous novels-notably Under the Net, The Unicorn and The Red and the Green-have kept critics guessing about the direction in which her talent might develop. The Nice and the Good may give them a...
Married. Joseph S. Clark, 65, two-term Democratic Senator from Pennsylvania; and Iris Cole Richey, 46, onetime PR woman; he for the third time, she for the second; in Washington, two weeks after Clark was divorced by Noel Hall Clark, his wife of 32 years.
Divorced. By Edwin Russell, 52, publisher of the Harrisburg Patriot-News; Iris Paine Russell, 40, wealthy descendant of Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt; on grounds of "incompatibility of character"; after 18 weeks of marriage (which took place last October, just 24 days after he was divorced by her second cousin, Lady Sarah...