Word: tempest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...WORLD OF LOVE, by Elizabeth Bowen (224 pp.; Knopt; $3.50), is not a tempest but a great calm in a teapot. In the attic of a ramshackle Irish country house, adrift in the summer doldrums, a beautiful girl finds a batch of old love letters. Their author-a dashing young man, dead these many decades, to whom the girl's mother was once engaged-now comes strangely to life. Around his memory, three women begin to dance slowly, lazily, like tired butterflies: the young girl, who falls in love with the shade she raised; the mother, scatterbrained and scatterhearted...
...Grove IV was "certain" that Beethoven's romantic "attachments were all honorable," Grove V is more cautious, also concludes that "we need not expend much pity upon Beethoven the thwarted lover." Beethoven's cryptic answer when asked what the Appassionato Sonata meant ("Read Shakespeare's Tempest") is now interpreted as a flip: "Don't ask silly questions." Mendelssohn, who was the No. i darling of Grove IV, with 60 florid pages ("Few instances can be found in history of a man so amply gifted with every good quality of mind and heart"), gets his shrift shortened...
...feelings may focus on the sea story, Billy Budd. If he has seen the film The Caine Mutiny and read the novel, he may become aware that both stories are about the same sort of thing, but that Billy is a tragedy while The Caine Mutiny is a tempest in a large and interesting teapot. Billy Budd carries echoes of the vocabulary of Lincoln and of a time when the great issues were debated at the top of men's voices, in the richest words at their command. And Billy Budd's themes, often thought to be peculiarly...
...written for big-circulation magazines, and even the better tales are apt to swerve from the winding lanes of art to the happy-ending highways of commerce. The best of the lot, Merry Christmas, All, starts as a rasping Yuletide battle of the sexes and ends as a mere tempest in a toddy. Marquand tells just about all that one needs to know about Hawaii and its Regular Army post (Lunch at Honolulu, The End Game) or Harvard (Commencement, June 11, 1953) or Mongolia (Where Are You, Prince?). In these and other pieces the ceiling of insight is sometimes...
Princeton, with its ace distance runner, Tempest Lowrey, not competing this season, has only one runner of any prominence in the East, Jack Bodrey. He is a definite threat, however, to the individual honors...