Word: muriel
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...DRIVER'S SEAT by Muriel Spark. 117 pages. Knopf...
...Muriel Spark's tenth novel is a portrait of insanity nearly as stark as madness itself. The heroine is Lise, a 34-year-old spinster who has worked in the same office in a North European city for 16 years. Having bought herself an ugly traveling outfit, she sets out for an unnamed southland ostensibly for a vacation, but really to find someone willing to kill...
Textbook Psychosis. Muriel Spark has written another riveting small novel that displays her elliptical style and uncanny control of an abruptly shifting narrative. As always, too, she is something of a conundrum. Critics have likened her to writers as varied as Isak Dinesen and Evelyn Waugh. Normally confident commentators grope helplessly to describe the seductions of her stories, citing her wit, her urbanity, her Roman Catholic convictions...
...Women's Wear Daily is a force," says Muriel Sinclair, fashion director for Joseph Magnin in San Francisco. "To ignore it, you'd have to be able to ignore what's going on in fashion around the world." Georgia Young, manager of Erlebacher in Washington, admits that
...younger people are usually treated if their psychological problems are severe. Says New York Psychologist Muriel Oberleder: "If we encounter unusual nervousness, irritability, depression, unaccountable anger, personality change, apathy or withdrawal in a young person, we make sure that he is seen by a physician. But when those symptoms appear in elderly people, they are considered par for the course of old age. We rarely consider the possibility that elderly people who have had a breakdown can recover." Dr. Berezin successfully treated a 70-year-old woman who had a severe breakdown, her first. She had been picked...