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...well educated community. If there is a body of basic literature which everyone has read, then communication is facilitated by inclusion by reference of highly complex ideas. One is capable, for example, of explaining a highly complicated interpersonal relationship by the simple statement: "It is like the relationship between Swann and Odette...
...other psychic, a New York artist named Ingo Swann, is still being studied...
...lace were removed from the rubble in Birmingham. One Saturday night, in Charlotte, N.C., I went with my father to visit a dynamic preacher-dentist, Rev. Dr. Reginald Hawkins, who was leading the school integration fight in Charlotte-Machlenburg that would eventually result in the Supreme Court's important Swann decision. I remember sitting that night in the Hawkins' well-furnished living-room, watching Johnny Carson on their color T.V., while my father and Rev. Hawkins talked on into the morning about the black struggle in Charlotte. I do not remember what, if anything, came out of their conversation...
...demonstrated the scope of Delderfield's ambition. It was the first of a projected five volumes in which he planned to trace the rise and fall and rise again of the Swann family, starting with the founding of its transport business at the height of the 19th century Industrial Revolution and running down through the investiture of Prince Charles in 1969. The second, almost equally successful installment was last year's Theirs Was the Kingdom. Next fall will see the publication of Volume III, Give Us This Day, which Delderfield finished just before he died...
...publishers to whom he submitted the first volume of his seven-volume masterpiece Remembrance of Things Past rejected it, explaining: "I cannot understand why a gentleman should employ 30 pages to describe how he turns and returns on his bed before going to sleep." When that first volume, Swann's Way, finally appeared in print in 1913-at Proust's expense-an influential critic dismissed the author as the "crudest of improvisers...