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...famed adventurer, "Baron Corvo." The Snows share a ten-room London flat and a 6½-year-old son. Snow likes to be in the worldly swim and throws parties conspicuously free of fellow novelists. Sir Charles is a shade stuffy about most 20th century authors; of another practicing panoramist, Lawrence Durrell, he says: "A bit like eating a box of soft chocolates." Too many writers, he feels, are munching chocolates instead of facing reality. At heart they fear science, and this keeps aggravating the crisis of the Two Cultures-what he regards as the monstrous gap between the "scientific...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Corridors of Power | 5/16/1960 | See Source »

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