Word: murdoch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...SANDCASTLE (342 pp.) - Iris Murdoch-Viking...
Whether the victory impressed Yale coach Murray Murdoch as a member of the N.C.A.A. Selection Committee is not determinable. But at least he could see that the close 4-2 score was not the story of the game...
Named to the Eastern selection committee were John Kelley of Boston College, chairman; Walter J. (Duke) Nelson of Middlebury, and J. Murray Murdoch of Yale. Alternates are Harry Cleverly of Boston University, William Harrison of Clarkson and Richard Vaughan of Princeton...
...kept in motion by the mysterious Mischa Fox, the enchanter of the book's title. A fabulously rich publisher who lives, like the Minotaur, in a mazelike palace, Mischa is, in terms of realism, the weakest thing in the novel. But he serves to underline Author Murdoch's philosophic point: those unsure of their own identity are at the mercy of anyone's will...
...detail, lit by a woman's sharp eye for gesture and the shape and condition of others' clothes and faces. In between the dilemmas and existentialist mazes, there is a great tragicomic talent at work, and readers who fail to take a pass or two at Murdoch's Minotaur will miss some fine and frenzied...