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...SANDCASTLE (342 pp.) - Iris Murdoch-Viking...
...incomprehensible love affair that grows between the two is made plausible by Iris Murdoch's great tact with words. It is only when this serious novelist (she is a tutor in philosophy at Oxford's St. Anne's College) intrudes witchcraft into the plot that she seems to forget the difference between the reality of magic and the magic of reality. Mor's daughter Felicity, hoping to release her father from his enchantment, casts a spell and burns a figure (made of a nylon stocking stuffed with paper). Mother catches her at it: "Whatever were...
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...
...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...