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The award, going to the collegiate cage team in the nation with the most courteous manners on the hardwood, will be presented to the Crimson April 6 in New York. Sanders will not be present to pick up the trophy, however, because he will announce a Celtics playoff game in...
But anyone who goes looking for steamy good stuff in an Auchincloss novel is bound for disappointment, no matter how promising the end sounds at first. Auchincloss tries to write novels of manners about upper-class New York: its institutions, its society, its members and its professional customs. The Partners...
Powers has been giving fencing lessons at Radcliffe for 14 years. He specializes in the conventional art forms of fencing with emphasis on grace, manners, and style. "Modern competitive fencing is more brutal," he said, "I don't really like the direction fencing is going."
In The Partners, Louis Auchincloss could not be plainer about how he operates within his chosen limits. His 20th work of fiction, the book is not truly a novel but a set of stories loosely linked by principal characters who happen to be members of the same Wall Street law...
Despite his rather reserved, fiduciary tone, Auchincloss generates some psychological subtlety and emotional range. He also manages to comment on his own situation as a novelist of manners-through a character who is a novelist of manners. "Society is intent on becoming classless, and the novel of manners must deal...