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...Maiden Fair. The story takes place Far Away (south of France, north of Italy) and Long Ago (end of the 16th century). The heroine, a young Frenchwoman Of Gentle Birth named Emily St. Aubert, is a Damsel In Distress-Alone In the Cold Cruel World with only her Lofty Principles to guide her. She is beautiful and dutiful, weeps for 30 pages at a stretch, faints wherever the carpeting permits, seeks refuge from the "vices of the world" in the "beauties of nature and the nicer emotions of the mind." She sketches, plays the lute, offers helpful hints to harried...
Touch's family is made up of dull, joke-cracking father Jack; shallow, bourgeois mother Ruth; precocious and sensitive son Tom (he's just won a national English contest); and maiden but equally sensitive aunt Emily. The action of the play centers around bringing Tom and Emily together, breaking down the walls of alienation which are physically represented by their separate garret-like rooms. Emily speaks to Tom only through monologues into a tape recorder, a device which Mr. Schwartz uses to great advantage...
...expansive, triumphal affirmation of the last movement but, in spite of mighty swells of sound, seems a little somnolent in the andante (where Von Karajan, on Deutsche Grammophon, creates a brooding tension). Bernstein has more overall success in the rich tone poem Pohjola's Daughter, about a maiden who sits high on a rainbow preferring, for some reason, to weave rather than be wooed...
...world changers and plain and assorted knuckleheads. Obviously Hersey has tuned his fine ear to the contemporary campus (he finished the book shortly before his appointment as master of Yale's Pierson College). His very funny student demonstration against majors in the curriculum (ABOLISH THE MAJOR: INTELLECTUAL IRON MAIDEN!) is straight out of today's headlines (TIME, Feb. 25), and his Professor Gutwillig is a marvelously pointed caricature of a preposterously ineffectual intellectual...
Industrious Mrs. Highet's first casual attempt at fiction, titled Above Suspicion and published under her maiden name, Helen MacInnes, became a runaway bestseller and a first-rate film. Since then, periodically and with unhurried ease, she has sat down with pencil and paper and turned out such bestselling yarns of international intrigue as Assignment in Brittany, North from Rome, Decision at Delphi and The Venetian Affair. All told, her twelve novels have sold more than 4,000,000 copies and have been translated into 19 languages. Five have been sold to the movies...