Word: kirke
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Neva Goodwin's "Mark Hatfield, Western Progressive" is a treacly success story of the sort I had hoped not to meet again in this journal. Emil Frankel's "Crisis in Republican Tradition" is a bizarre blending of truism, commonplace, and political myth appropriately flavored with citations from Russell Kirk and Goals For Americans. "Dynamic energy," Frankel insists, "Vibrant center. Creative traditionalism," and concludes that "It is the danger of depersonalization and conformity which must be fought in out society." I still don't know what liberal Republicans are. If they are simply a Crolyite fan club, why doesn't Frankel...
...HOUSE OF FEAR (256 pp.)-Russell Kirk-Fleet Publishing...
...ancient, canopied bed lies corpselike old Lady MacAskival. Birds screech outside the window, ghosts roam the castle's corridors, haunted eyes gleam in the dark. In a pit beneath the trap door in the cellar lies a mysteriously deformed skeleton. "This Gothick tale," says Author Russell Kirk, is "in unblushing line of direct descent from The Castle of Otranto." He is wrong. Historian Kirk (The Conservative Mind) has expertly stuffed his book with all the claptrappings of the Gothic romance, but what he has actually achieved is a political morality tale. For all the apparent ectoplasm floating about...
...Hebrides, turns out to be merely "the microcosm of modern existence." The book's hero is an American lawyer, Hugh Logan, who accepts a commission from a wealthy, Scots-born industrialist to travel to Carnglass and buy the island and Lady MacAskival's ancient castle. In the Kirk microcosm, he obviously represents beneficial U.S. power and the rule of law, just as Lady MacAskival represents an old order that a modern conservative may mourn but cannot hope to restore. Lawyer Logan's allies-and the dream of every conservative-are simple force of character and strength...
Political Exorcist. Although he is far better known as the eloquent spokesman of American conservatism, Author Kirk has been writing ghost stories for years. He worked on Old House of Fear, his first novel, in the high, narrow Victorian house in Mecosta, Mich. (pop. 300), built by his great-grandfather. Kirk, a bachelor, occupies the house with an unmarried great-aunt, spends much of his time studying the family ghosts, whose personalities he claims to be able to distinguish...