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GREEN HENRY (706 pp.)-Gottfried Keller, translated by A. M. Holt-Grove...
...dust jacket of this 100-year-old novel proclaims it to be "undoubtedly the greatest masterpiece of fiction by a Swiss writer," which is a little like referring ecstatically to the tallest building in Newark, N.J. In the period in which Gottfried Keller was busy being the greatest Swiss novelist (Der Grüne Heinrich was published in 1854), Tolstoy wrote War and Peace, Melville wrote Moby Dick, and Emily Brontë wrote Wuthering Heights. Still, Keller's book, in its first English translation, has enough literary and historical value to make it worth reading. The novel lacks...
Named assistant managers were M. Keller '63, of Quincy House and lowa; Edward A. Alpers '63, of House and Marion, Pa.: Robert '63, of Lowell House and Depew, and David W. Walker '63, of Adams and Canaan...
...portraitist, Karsh readily discusses his favorite portraits-his Helen Keller, Hemingway, and Hammarskjold, besides the famous Churchill-but declines to nominate his best in the conviction that he has not yet taken it. "Perhaps," he says, "tomorrow...
...Tenth Man mixes modern psychology and ancient rite in Playwright Paddy Chayefsky's tale about a Jewish girl possessed by an evil spirit; The Miracle Worker, with brilliant performances by Anne Bancroft and Patty Duke, dramatizes the brave, difficult relationship between blind and deaf-mute Helen Keller as a child and her teacher, Annie Sullivan; The Best Man, though superficial in characterization, provides a vivid theatrical look at campaigning politicians. Three musicals remain spicy and satisfying: West Side Story, Leonard Bernstein's brassy, big-city, 20th century Romeo and Juliet; Fiorello!, the nostalgic story of New York City...