Word: spencer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA (110 pp.)-Ellzabefh Spencer-McGraw-Hill...
...boor, a nincompoop, or else a sudden convert to the notion that his home soil is spiritually sterile. Even Henry James, the foremost author in the field, wrote less from an observer's strength than from a vantage point uneasily anchored in an inferiority complex. Talented Novelist Elizabeth Spencer (The Voice at the Back Door) does not entirely escape the compulsion to prove that as a sensitive U.S. writer, she understands the gaucherie of her countrymen. But The Light in the Piazza is one of the best novels in a long time about Americans abroad...
Flashing Sweetness. In less than one-third the space required by most novelists to elaborate a banality, Author Spencer tells a suspenseful story, knowledgeably confronts and synthesizes two foreign viewpoints, and gives dignity to a love story that could very easily have become a tearjerker. Margaret Johnson is a Southern woman at the age when most facts of life have become more plain than attractive. Her husband is comfortably well off, her figure is still good, and she is on vacation in Italy with Clara, her 26-year-old daughter. Because of a childhood head injury, Clara has the mentality...
...ending that is both delicately contrived and impeccably honest, Author Spencer triumphantly fuses all conflicts. Her American mother and daughter have dignity and grace, and if the absent Mr. Johnson runs to formula, he is at least understandable. For once, Europeans and Americans face each other in credible postures, described in writing that has a creditable stance...
Died. Junius Spencer Morgan, 68, banker, philanthropist and expert yachtsman in the tradition of his father, J. P. Morgan, and grandfather, J. Pierpont Morgan; after an emergency operation for an intestinal hemorrhage; in an Ontario hospital after a hunting trip. Pipe-smoking and softspoken, he never made big headlines like J. Pierpont or J. P. II, and once gratefully accepted a 1? refund on his federal income...