Word: mallets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ROOM (247 pp.)-Françoise Mallet-Joris-Farrar, Straus & Cudahy...
...fine points. These are at least as intricate as the fine points of, say, lawn tennis, though perhaps not quite as wholesome. One of the most elegant sportswriters of L'amour is a 26-year-old Flemish-born Parisian housewife and mother named Françoise Mallet-Joris...
...idea may choose to 1) give the reader an intellectual hotfoot, i.e., singe his brain with a better idea, 2) tickle his funnybone with satire, 3) clout him over the head with the blunt instrument of anger. British-born Novelist Geoffrey Wagner belongs to the blunt-instrument school. His mallet of malice falls on psychiatry and especially psychoanalysis, its high priests, practices and pretensions. With scarcely a smidgen of saving humor, but with much righteous wrath, The Dispossessed argues that Freud, Jung, Adler, et al. are bloodletters of the psyche whose theories will eventually seem just as barbaric and outmoded...
Character Sculpture. Master dealer of identity cards is one Captain Mallet the guiding spirit of an extraordinary organization calling itself the Identity Club. Its members used to be mere psychoanalysts, but they have gone far beyond exploring the Self: they have learned instead, to supply their patients with "the identities they can use best." This crew moves into Hyde's Mortimer, an abandoned English country seat (it has lost its identity, too) for the club's annual convention. A task force under Captain Mallet recruits a domestic staff of local people. In almost no time, the frantic overworked...
...prophets. In them he found a wrath. compassion and inspiration that matched his own. He sculpted their squat figures in bizarre oriental costumes, twisted and tormented in soapstone (which is soft when quarried, grows hard with age). Before the last one was finished, in 1805, Aleijadinho was working with mallet and chisel strapped to the stumps of his crippled hands. He lived on miserably until 1814. When he died, his achievement marked the high point in exuberant Brazilian rococo...