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JONATHAN SWIFT (508 pp.) - John Middleton Murry-Noonday Press...
...Mass would listen to Handel, conversation, politics and smut. Often they listened to the Very Rev. Jonathan Swift, Anglican dean of St. Patrick's in Dublin, a man who could use the English language like a whip and was, in the words of his latest biographer, John Middleton Murry, "one of the most difficult men that ever God created...
...mercifully spares the readers a psychiatric treatise on the great dean, but the book does, with immense elaboration, spell out one of the saddest stories in literature. Few Americans read King Lear, and fewer still would read it if it existed only in Scholar Kittredge's famous notes. Middleton Murry's book is of that scholarly kind. Yet, readers who do not insist on a bland diet of print will be well rewarded by this study of a man of tragic genius...
Shower of Stars (Thurs. 8:30 p.m., CBS). A Christmas Carol, with Fredric March, Basil Rathbone, Ray Middleton...
...March shows a man at his unadorned best, Humphrey Bogart just as skilfully gets inside the workings of a criminal mentality and depicts it as what it is: the mind of an animal. Yet he and the other two jungledwellers, Dewey Martin and Robert Middleton, have their sympathetic moments. They are animals, but curiously complex ones...