Word: journey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...DREAM JOURNEY by JAMES HANLEY 368 pages. Horizon Press...
...critical reputation. Yet the matter is not terribly mysterious. He throws no sops to fashion or to the ease of his readers. Hanley's essential subject is a darkness that most people would rather whistle through: the abrasions of living that wear away spirit and soul. A Dream Journey, Hanley's 26th book, is a particularly harrowing example of his craft. Clement Stevens, 50, is a painter with ferocious determination but no special gift. Lena, his wife in everything but name, sums up the fruits of his labor: "Two exhibitions, ten private sales, a deal of barter." Clem...
...just walk out on a person just because they turn out to be second rate ... There's more to a man than that." Hanley wrests such epiphanies from meager raw materials, and it is easy to commend his skill and tenacity. But A Dream Journey like Clem and Lena themselves, is more to be puzzled at than loved. Paul Gray
...list for Voyage of the Damned is heavily booked with star types-Max Von Sydow, Oskar Werner, Malcolm McDowell, Faye Dunaway, Lee Grant, James Mason, Orson Welles, Ben Gazzara and Katharine Ross-along with an affecting newcomer, Lynne Frederick. All have been brought aboard to add glamour to the journey, but the effort is futile. The actors struggle, usually valiantly (Werner, Von Sydow, Mason), sometimes campily (Dunaway, Welles), but are ultimately undone...
...League basketball season kicks off in earnest this weekend, as the Crimson cagers journey to Jadwin Gym and to the Palestra for back-to-back games against Princeton and Penn. The road trip against the League's perennial front-runners could prove a baptism by fire for Coach Satch Sanders' slumping quintet, which dropped three in a row over vacation...