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...About seven minutes before the President went on the air, James Hagerty motioned to this spectator to follow him ... 'A man wants to see you,' said Hagerty, ushering us into Mr. Eisenhower's presence . . . 'Hello, Mr. President,' we exclaimed like a schoolboy . . . T read your column on Mr. Khrushchev; very good.' he complimented . . . Thank you very much.' we gushed. 'Two Congressmen told me they plan putting it into the Congressional Record' . . . 'You nervous about going on?' we inquired . . . 'Should I be?' Ike chuckled...
...diagnosis lies at the heart of this exciting new novel by Gabriel Fielding, who, under his real name of Alan Barnsley, is a practicing British physician. In earlier books, Brotherly Love and In the Time of Greenbloom, Author Fielding dealt with the family background of John Blaydon, a British schoolboy, and carried him through an adolescent love affair. When the girl was brutally raped and murdered by a wandering psychopath, John's sanity was saved by Horab Green-bloom, a Jewish intellectual who is for ever on the move - mentally, physically, metaphysically. But not even Greenbloom is able...
...Separate Peace, by John Knowles. A first novel that is exceptionally well written and, rarer still, thoroughly controlled, about a schoolboy's discovery of a knot of homicidal jealousy within himself...
...Separate Peace, by John Knowles. A first novel that is exceptionally well-written, and rarer still, thoroughly controlled, about a schoolboy's discovery of a knot of homicidal jealousy within himself...
...romantic about his hero than Stephen Crane was about the protagonist of The Red Badge of Courage. The books are similar in kind and (to a considerable extent) in quality: Author Crane's young soldier had to endure the discovery of fear, and Author Knowles's schoolboy must face the discovery of hatred-a bitter and homicidal knot of hatred in himself...