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ROBERTSON DAVIES'S new book features a quintessential Jane Austen heroine. Miss Maria Magdalena Theotoky is every bit as articulate, independent and charming as Elizabeth Darcy And like Austen. Davies fuses a titillating, almost melodramatic plot with an effortless yet penetrating treatment of themes...
...setting is not Victorian England but a modern university in Ontario a cloistered enclave of Renaissance scholarship housing characters whose somber public lives belie the sensational reality of their private existences Maria, a graduate student who insists on interpreting all events in terms of Rabelais and Parcelsus, narrates half the chapters. The others are voiced by the Reverend Simon Dar-court, a professor of religion who is writing a series of meditations on the modern university...
...surprisingly. The Rebel Angels focuses mostly on the tension between the cerebral and spiritual, the practical and intellectual in modern life. It is no accident that by the end Maria has married a young financier named Arthur Cornish; the intellectual community has come to respect him, recognizing that his business-like attitude and practicality are supported by sensitivity, culture and a freshness of perception. His liking for orthodoxy, for example, is in fact not a cheap attempt at culture but a bias which he is capable of defending intellectually...
...INSTANCE only does Davies' characterization disappoint. Maria is half-Gypsy, a fact which she conceals partly out of a fear of making herself interesting in a cheap way, but also because her garlicky, long-skirted mother does not conform to her self-image, her need for smooth modernity and rationality. Maria's ostensible embarrassment over her heritage is a dirty trick to play. She is too finely tuned to admit this sort of flaw blithely; by nature a vivid personality. She must and does go to great lengths to avoid trite melodrama. The words she utters...
...women combined their sprinting talents to win the 4x100 relay. Junior Alice Newhauser grabbed the lead and teammates Kathy Bushby. Sigrid Gabler and Theresa Moore held on for the lead. Newhauser then went on to win the 100. In the throwing events, sophomore Maria Accacia continued her winning ways, taking the shot put and throwing her personal best in the javelin...