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GARDEN STATE by JULIAN MOYNAHAN 282 pages. Little, Brown...
...arms. Just as suddenly the music stops, the trance is over. Then, just as suddenly, there are second partners all round. Before Bradley's pen can reach paper, he falls in love with Arnold's wife and, immediately after, with Arnold's 19-year-old daughter Julian...
Poor old Bradley's brief, intense affair with Julian brings this novel - and perhaps Miss Murdoch's whole body of writing - to a high point. All the passionate Murdoch questions get passionately asked. What is the connection between love and death? Is "black Eros," as a transfigured Bradley comes to think, the artist's name for truth - the name for all the knowledge he seeks...
...English team's strength was centered in its middle and long distance runners. Besides Moore, Oxford's Phil Lewis edged Bill McLeod of Yale in the 880 by .9 seconds, finishing in 1:57.8. And in the supposed feature race of the day Julian Goater won the mile with a 4:13.0, .9 seconds over John Quirk. Favorite Robert Steele finished a dismal fourth. Oxford-Cambridge also won the 440 and the 440-yard hurdles...
...thoughtful to the frivolous. Helmut von Moltke (St. Martin's Press; $16.95) introduces a Roman Catholic nobleman who triples as an international lawyer and anti-Hitler leader, and who, like Protestant Dietrich Bonhoeffer, paid for his resistance with his life. Without overplaying their hand, Authors Michael Balfour and Julian Frisby make Von Moltke something of a prophet, so concerned with disturbing trends toward materialism and impersonal technocracy that he remains a relevant critic today...