Word: moonlight
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...MOONLIGHT (309 pp.)-Joyce Cary-Harper ($3). The Moonlight has the psychological suspense of a well-written thriller. But it is something more. It is the account of an English family trying to live by a Victorian code in the present-day world, told with personal aloofness from the tragic consequences that suggests the attitude of Thomas Hardy...
Author Cary is an Irish-born, Oxford-educated writer who has been widely acclaimed in England. The Moonlight is the second of his eleven novels to be published here. Readers may conclude that some English critics, who compare him to Tolstoy and Fielding, are overenthusiastic. But The Moonlight is superior to most of the fiction on the stands these days...
Wodehouse's second novel since the war has all the nicely timed plotting and mock style of its many predecessors; its world, as usual, is a world all its own. Blandings Castle is the scene; present are Lord Emsworth, who resembles a heap of old clothes in the moonlight, his prize pig, his battle-ax of a sister and various featherbrained members of a younger generation intent on strategies of love. Full Moon lacks the fresh epithets and fruity exuberance of Wodehouse's most inventive stories, but its nitwitticisms will satisfy the addicted...
...first glance Pennsylvania's Republican Congressman John Grain Kunkel (pronounced Koonkul) is a very ordinary looking fellow. It is almost impossible to imagine Congressman Kunkel wearing a burnoose, strumming a guitar by moonlight, or joining the Foreign Legion to forget Dorothy Lamour. He wears spectacles, which would probably keep him out, anyhow. Congressman Kunkel is 48, a bachelor, 6 ft. 1 in., has grey hair, is shy, wears quiet clothes, and looks as though he enjoys reading railroad timetables...
...titles that painters put on their pictures often make no more sense than the paintings themselves-and frequently seem to have nothing to do with the case. A gleaming, mackerel-in-the-moonlight exception is Ivan Le Lorraine Albright, who called his painting of a varicose-veined slattern Into the World There Came a Soul Called Ida, and underlined his intricate picture of a moldering mortuary door That Which I Should Have Done I Did Not Do (TIME...