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...Oasis (1949), the least-known of her novels, took some pot-shots at Manhattan's leftist intellectuals, with whom she had broken in the late '30s as one of the renegade editors of the Partisan Review. The Groves of Academe, in 1952, renewed her public fame and represented the familiar, unillusioned satirist at her best, with its caricature of a progressive college (Miss McCarthy had taught at Bard and Sarah Lawrence). As with her last novel, A Charmed Life, readers tried to match the characters with real people in the McCarthy coterie--and not always without success...
...small Fort Worth group, which has been meeting weekly since last November, is typical in membership, questions and answers of one of the least-known but fastest-growing teen-age organizations in the U.S. It is called Alateen. Founded in 1957 in Pasadena, Calif. by the high-school-aged son of an alcoholic, Alateen now numbers 65 chapters in the U.S., three in Canada, two in Australia; 50 more are being organized in the U.S. Membership in each group averages ten boys and girls whose adolescence is scarred, often literally, by an alcoholic parent. The youngsters range from...
Prime Catch. Goya's Muse is not only one of his best, but for years was also his least-known painting. He painted the young Marquesa about 1804, when she was one of the leading lights of proud Spanish intellectual circles and a member of the group that welcomed the Duke of Wellington as a national hero when he arrived to drive out Napoleon's troops. The victorious Wellington returned to London in 1814, carrying hundreds of gifts showered upon him by the grateful Spanish. Among them was the Muse. For generations it hung almost forgotten in impressive...
...Months later, Stew Alsop got around to identifying the man who introduced the word egghead to the modern political vocabulary. The "rising young Connecticut Republican" was Insurance Executive John deKoven Alsop, now 42, youngest brother of Columnists Joseph, 47, and Stewart, 43, and by all odds the least-known of the brothers Alsop. Indeed, precious few of generally Fair-Dealing Joe's and Stew's 12 million paid-up readers even knew that they had a brother-much less a Republican...
Last week John Alsop decided to present his credentials to the electorate, announced his candidacy for this year's G.O.P. nomination for governor. If he gets past four other Republican hopefuls at a state convention this June, the least-known Alsop brother will come up against incumbent Democratic Governor Abraham Ribicoff, no egghead, but one of the ablest votegetters in Connecticut...