Word: murdochs
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Brown's ROTC program, founded during the First World War and fortified during World War II, had a modest enrollment until 1969, when anti-war sentiment and the shaky status of the program made it an unattractive option. Enrollment was never mandatory, Kelsey Murdoch, assistant to the President of Brown, said yesterday...
Meanwhile, Portuguese intellectuals protested the banning of the books as did the American P.E.N., the noted association of writers. A group of British authors, among them Doris Lessing, Iris Murdoch and Stephen Spender, wrote a letter to the Times of London attesting to the book's literary value and "strict moral intention...
Poor old Bradley's brief, intense affair with Julian brings this novel - and perhaps Miss Murdoch's whole body of writing - to a high point. All the passionate Murdoch questions get passionately asked. What is the connection between love and death? Is "black Eros," as a transfigured Bradley comes to think, the artist's name for truth - the name for all the knowledge he seeks...
...dark gods do not come cheap in Murdoch novels. A suicide and a murder occur. Most of what passes for love is "like a dream, for gotten" and this is the worst spell of all. Doomed by the very powers he has released, Bradley never does become his kind of artist, but he does become Miss Murdoch's kind of lover - a man with "a sort of certainty, perhaps the only sort...
...matters, for The Black Prince is really the story of all souls who traffic with their demons in order to transcend, sometimes at a terrible risk, the meanness, the dull ness, the lower depths of being human. Blessed are those who live to tell about it, pre-eminently Iris Murdoch...