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Working as ticket agent and brakeman on the Boston & Albany Railroad to earn his way through Boston Latin School and Harvard served slow-spoken, bespectacled, 225-lb. Thomas Charles O'Brien in good stead. Soon after he had his law degree he became counsel for the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, has since made his name as a Labor lawyer. Switching parties is nothing new to him. Elected a district attorney in 1922 as a Republican, he tried for a Democratic Senatorial nomination in 1930, has currently been trying again with Coughlin backing...
...BEAUTIES AND FURIES-Christina Stead-Appleton-Century...
...genius ruin themselves for some fantasy, or for their families, that's why there are so few that succeed. There are really hundreds of thousands of men of genius in the world." This minority opinion is delivered not by Author Christina Stead herself but by one of her characters; but she writes as if it were true. The Beauties and Furies, like her earlier books (The Salzburg Tales, Seven Poor Men of Sydney) is something rich and strange, bears the same relation to workaday life as Ariel's song to a drowned...
Elvira's husband goes to Paris, to do the decent British thing, muddles the situation more. Conferences coagulate. Marpurgo flits from group to group, breathing out night thoughts and miasmal metaphysics. When his boss fires him because of his artistic expense accounts, thinks of hiring Oliver in his stead, Marpurgo's scheming grows more satanic. With a gloomy consciousness that he has done all he can, Elvira's husband tires of her vacillations, takes himself back to England. Elvira settles herself to lie on the bed she has made, then suddenly realizes that Oliver is an inconstant...
...much in the story nor its background but in her characters' coruscating conversations, the implications of their grotesque actions and their wilder words, does Christina Stead's originality shine. Readers who know where they are with the Saturday Evening Post will get little or nothing out of The Beauties and Furies. Its trolls and hobgoblins may show less timid readers a thing or two not visible except by moonlight...