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...admirers, is steeped in the past . . . His explorations have led him to stylistic exercises which at first sight disturb, or even horrify, but which, on analysis, reveal elements derived from remote antiquity or the art-forms of primitive peoples . . . [His] ceaseless industry . . . may seem to some capricious and rootless, but it undoubtedly deserves its reward in the greatest snob-following of our time...
...detested, only to discover that she liked her new home little better. Now that her husband is dead, she sees Martin as her new escape. But Martin has been to the mainland and has come back to his island with the knowledge "that the more we travel the more rootless we become." Truth in the Night is Michael McLaverty's story of their troubled courtship and tragic marriage, a tale as bleak as the rocky slopes and the grey loughs of its Irish scene, and one as nearly perfect as any ever written of its minor Irish kind...
Communism, Hydie has been rootless ever since she gave up Catholicism. Hydie finds her substitute in an affair with Fyodor, whose lovemaking makes her feel "as if she had been run over by an express train." When his ruthlessness and a revelation of his mission show her the true nature of Communism (he is working up a Paris purge list against the day when his masters take over France), she shoots him, but merely wounds him. Fyodor is s.ent back to Russia to avoid a scandal, and Hydie gets ready to go back to the U.S. War is about...
What a few months of dusk-to-dawn boozing with his jaded, royal pals did to Barnaby is the story of this first novel about high life in postwar Paris. F. Scott Fitzgerald could have done wonders with these rootless idlers. So could the Hemingway of The Sun Also Rises. But Barnaby just falls in & out of love a couple of times and eventually concludes that "things happen as they happen, and it is a waste of time to vex ourselves with what they are and why they come...
...that Dirt. One thing wrong with Americans, in Lewis' view, is that most of them fail to realize what a magnificent future they are building. Tied to petty, European standards of measurement, Americans keep thinking that they are a great nation, instead of "an advance copy" of the "rootless Elysium" that is to come. They worry because their cities are "irresponsible, dirty, corrupt," when in Lewis' opinion such conditions are "like nature," and therefore highly admirable. Americans even suspect their gregarious habits and glad-handedness, when, as Lewis sees it, they should be reveling in their "beautiful human...