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...soul. The Absolute. His hero, who rambles through the lives of all the other characters, is Larry Darrel, a Chicago boy whose ready-made certainties were buried in World War I. He comes back from war unwilling to go to college, unwilling to settle down and marry wealthy Isabel Bradley-even indifferent to the Parisian fleshpots offered him by Isabel's expatriate Uncle Elliott. He wanders through Europe picking up saints and sinners, already feeling that "the sharp edge of a razor is difficult to pass over . . . the path to Salvation is hard." Each time he reappears among...
Still another is Maugham himself, who appears in the book without self-consciousness, emitting characteristic worldly wisecracks, and this time without even a faint disguise. Samples from his conversations with the debutante Isabel...
...Isabel: "Will you be awfully shocked if I tell you something...
...Isabel: "I thought I'd get him to come home with me and once I'd got him there, well, it was almost inevitable that the inevitable should happen...
...Republic), Peter Drucker (The Future of Industrial Man), Hamilton Basso (Mainstream), Herbert Agar (A Time for Greatness), Henry Wallace (The Century of the Common Man), James Truslow Adams (The American), Walter Lippmann (whose The Good Society, originally published in 1937, has just been reissued with a new preface), and Isabel Paterson (The God of the Machine) have all taken part in what might be called a new constitutional convention of the spirit. They have been busy conducting such an argument about "rights," "powers," "duties," the nature of a federal system, and what not, that if Jimmy Madison, Long Tom Jefferson...