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...foremost, Edel is a Jamesian--and he was a Jamesian before it was considered fashionable. Born in Pittsburgh, he was whisked off to Canada by his parents, and he completed the major part of his education there. After receiving an M.A. from McGill in 1928, he studied for the "difficult" degree at the Sorbonne, the State Doctorate. "There were two dissertions required," he explains, "and I gave mine on James." He also explored his interest in psychology, "becoming one of the Adler entourage...
...Humanities section of the Bowdoin Prizes (English) for graduates, Alfred W. Satterthwaite 6G won the $400 first prize for an essay entitled "Some Interpretations of Greek Tragedy." Leo Bersani 3G received honorable mention for his essay "The Development of a Jamesian Novel: Notes on the Writing of "The Ambassadors...
...Italians seemed fairly baffled by the refined music and the obscure Jamesian plot, made no clearer by the strange language (the libretto, by Welsh-English Writer Myfanwy Piper, was sung in English). But the audience politely brought the fine English cast back for eight curtain calls. Wrotem Il Tempo of Britten's score: "A type of anthology of modern musical taste." Corriere della Sera applauded Britten's "sinister castle of sounds," but found it "difficult to establish even approximately what the new opera is meant to signify...
...recent years the suspense formula has become as elastic as a private eye's suspenders. It has often been stretched to include such weighty matters as character, group psychology, politics and sometimes even good writing. Thus a new category was created-well below the occasional Henry Jamesian thrillers turned out by such serious writers as Marghanita Laski (see below], but several steps above the Mickey Spillane gutter. A batch of new novels demonstrates the current suspense range from simple, old-fashioned sex fiends to complex, introverted drawing-room villains...
...wrote The Beast in the Jungle, a masterful short novel about an aging man who discovers too late, that life has slipped by him. This week 27-year-old George Lanning publishes This Happy Rural Seat, a brilliant first novel in which he spins some subtle variations on the Jamesian theme of the unlived life. A onetime staff member of the highbrow Kenyan Review, Lanning shows a gift for creating complex human beings that marks him as one of the ablest new novelists in some time...