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...Lawrence's Nightmare. The Writer and his Circle of Friends in the Years of the Great War. By Paul Delaney. (Basic, $15.95). Has Lawrence ever had a pleasant dream? Lawrence's wartime miseries are handled skillfully in this top-notch depiction of a full generation of British writers...
Despite the lopsided score and a few pleasant surprises, the meet did little to dispel the doubts that linger around Harvard's chances in many of the events...
Once the initial shock of the assassination had passed and the period of national mourning was over, South Koreans made a surprising and pleasant discovery: the country was actually getting along quite well without the late President Park Chung Hee. "Why, it's beautiful," said a young schoolteacher, Kim Sung Ho. "Our country runs itself...
This sunny approach is largely justified by the facts. "I've had an exceptionally lucky life," Auden said some four years before his death in 1973, and indeed it seemed to be. He enjoyed those rarest experiences in English literature, a happy childhood and a pleasant public school education. At Oxford in the '20s he made some impressive lifelong friends and acolytes: Stephen Spender, Louis MacNeice, C. Day Lewis. A Cambridge graduate named Christopher Isherwood also joined what became known as the Auden Gang. The publication of Poems (1930) made Auden famous...
Updike knows the upright Americans of Pleasant Avenue, U.S.A. are troubled; the price of gravel for the driveways has dropped dramatically and "it is a beautiful day, a bright blue Monday," but still they feel wretched...