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In an introduction that recalls the days when he was jobless and neither fudge nor genius seemed salable, Greene says that the book is about the injustice of man's justice. It is, but Greene was Greene even then-and his real interest was the vice of man'...
Rousing Rabble. Yoknapatawpha and its county seat, Jefferson, have their pale counterpart in actuality: Lafayette County and Oxford, where Faulkner lived, worked and occasionally puzzled his mildly curious fellow citizens. "The posted woods on my property contain several tame squirrels," he advised them a few years ago in a sarcastic...
In this blot, Dr. Holtzman sees a horned bat's face; "Baboons at play" is equally acceptable as a normal response. But such answers as "Reminds me of the Black Plague" are rated neurotic. Explains Holtzman: "This is an abstract association . . . an anxiety response." At the schizophrenic end of...
IF set anywhere else in the United States, this entertaining series of neurotic episodes would be uninspired and without interest. But maladjusted Radcliffe girls and frustrated Harvards become extremely graphic as you follow them on their sexual excursions down the aisles of Widener ("Christ, Mark thought, doesn't anyone ever...
At the time of their defection, intimates and superiors-who included some of Britain's most respected intellectuals and public officials-argued by spy-thriller logic that neither Donald Maclean nor Guy Burgess could possibly be a spy. Said one friend: "They were too obvious." Both, it turned out...