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...novel of some passion and excitement, and the slow accumulation of brief scenes, following the pattern of Passage to India, is very nearly incompatible with such passion. Here & there the novel has a kind of Oriental power of hallucination: experiences blend and retreat; characters dissolve; a spell is cast by the very remoteness of the happenings so precisely described. At such moments the novel seems a blend of several books, about an India that seems partly familiar and partly a new world of still formless action...
...After a spell at Culver Military Academy, he went to Princeton, "so I could be in the Triangle Club." During his first summer vacation from Princeton, he joined a summer stock company that included Margaret Sullavan, James Stewart and Mildred Natwick, and he directed one play. In his senior year, he won a scholarship to the Moscow Art Theater, where he sat for eight months at the feet of the great Stanislavsky...
Noel Coward, back in the U.S. on another show-business trip, put his stick away and walked upright after a shaky spell with rheumatic fever...
...flee into the world of art-for-art's-sake, too much of a romantic to want the grim, bare world of the French realists-a world whose fiction he described, in a rare burst of savagery, as "that meat-market of middle-aged sensuality." After a spell of youthful Bohemianism, Stevenson dropped anchor in his own fair harbor-the world of Treasure Island, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The New Arabian Nights...
...novel drives this despondent dogma home with such fierce insistence that readers may need a few minutes' reflection to shake off its spell. But in the end, it will be seen that Green has trapped both Kaspan and Meddow in equally futile obsessions with absolutist quests-the one for absolute freedom and the other for absolute love...