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...GATES OF AULIS-Gladys Schmitt-Dial...
...this first novel, with great seriousness and intensity, Miss Schmitt makes a try at a genuine U.S. tragedy. Too few U.S. writers try that, and almost none succeed. Miss Schmitt deserves a medal for valor, not for success...
...manner, as in matter, Gladys Schmitt is unqualifiedly ambitious, almost Elizabethan. Even in the act of love her heroine's mental talk runs, for a full page, like this: "No, wait, wait for me. Do not leave me among old injustices and unanswered calls. Hold me, bear me up lest my hand, trailing back through fathomless water, encounter a dead man's face." Rather more successful is Carl's image of Ellie: "Oh, she is mad ... she veers like an abandoned ship on wild water by night, all sails down, and the wheel spinning first left, then...
...Gladys Schmitt was born in Pittsburgh in 1909, graduated from the University of Pittsburgh, where she began a close study of the texts of Proust and Mann. The Gates of Aulis, which took her five years to write, is the winner of the biennial Dial Press Award "for an outstanding novel that concerns itself realistically with the problems of adjustment which face young men and women of America today." Last month Gladys Schmitt went back to Pittsburgh to spend a year in research, preparatory to writing a novel about King David...
...spent three days pondering how to produce better citizens and a better world. They had heard their president, George Peabody College's Professor Fremont P. Wirth, and Harvard's Professor Howard E. Wilson accuse them of teaching history to little or no purpose. Then Professor Schmitt let loose. Said...