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...nice of the Queen to include Scottish Novelist (The Mandelbaum Gate) Muriel Spark, 45, on the New Year Honors List, naming her to the Order of the British Empire. Nice, but not nearly nice enough, complained the ladies of British letters, who regarded the O.B.E., one step from the bottom of the honors, as a damn with faint praise. Sniped Rebecca West, herself a more lofty Dame Commander of the Order: "I cannot help but think that the persons responsible for recommending the award to Muriel Spark of an O.B.E. must have been actuated by a desire to make...
...much as in world power-that America has come to occupy during the last 20 years." This view is borne out by the anthology, but another selection might have been less flattering to U.S. readers. For example, British writing is meagerly represented by Angus Wilson, Doris Lessing and Muriel Spark. There are no stories by two great English stylists, Graham Greene and Evelyn Waugh, by Anthony Burgess or V.S. Pritchett, or by those writers, like Coljn Maclnnes, John Wain or Kingsley Amis, who have given voice to the enhanced position of the British working class-"the people of England...
...late. This could be the meet that determines Harvard's future in Eastern rankings this year. A big win could spark the swimmers to superhuman efforts against the toughies still left on the schedule: Cornell, Princeton and Yale...
...Alvarez hopes they are there, awaiting only the arrival of his spark chamber to be found. "After a boyhood spent watching his father's workers erecting a beautiful and complex series of chambers and passages in the Great Pyramid," he asks, "would Chephren be content to erect a solid and uninteresting pile of limestone blocks as his own pyramid...
...charmed reader may want to know more than Anthologist Lewis reveals about his contributors, who are identified only by name, age and the countries where he found them. If the spark can burn so widely and so brightly, and at so lovely an age, what kindles it? Who nourishes it? And why does it sometimes go out? Lewis is content to let the poets be judged by their work, and perhaps he is right...