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...just too nice a guy. He obviously wishes the world well; he wants the world to be pleased with him; and this benevolence, or "potato love," as Bellow calls it, may have damaged the work of a writer who has long been on the threshold of the U.S. literary pantheon but has never quite managed the "big" novel that would put him there permanently...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Good Guy | 9/25/1964 | See Source »

...British intelligentsia's newest high priestess is Brigid Brophy, and it is easy to see why. She picks only top-chop idols, and her devotional fires resemble a Bessemer converter. Brophy's incisive critical essays have revealed her pantheon: Freud, Shakespeare, Mozart and Jane Austen. To Great God Freud she has already devoted a book, Black Ship to Hell; now the 18th century composer gets his. In Mozart, her scholarship is firm, and the writing is good Brophy, but it is sheer gusto and freshness of thought that make the book a joy to read...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Black Ship to Glyndebourne | 9/4/1964 | See Source »

...publishing almost daily newspaper articles during World War II in praise of it. Politics finally palled, and the old man returned to his volcanoes. Last week Dr. Atl's fire finally went out at the age of 89. President Lopez Mateos ordered his burial in Mexico's pantheon of famous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Artists: The Volcanic Volcanist | 8/28/1964 | See Source »

...figures. Originally he painted all of them - Archimedes, who once ran naked through the streets of Syracuse, Thales, Aristotle, Leonardo, Bacon, Galileo, Faraday, Pascal, Morse, Edison, Bell, Helmholtz-in the nude. Then he had extras from the Comédie Franchise model period costumes while be dressed up his pantheon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Painting: Resurrected Mural | 8/14/1964 | See Source »

...OYSTERS OF LOCMARIAQUER by Eleanor Clark. 203 pages. Pantheon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Ostrea Edulis & Others | 7/31/1964 | See Source »

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