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...plays) was re-issued and re-evaluated. Though it provoked its share of cultist nonsense, the rediscovery of James placed him firmly where he had always neglectedly been, at the hard core of great American novel writing along with the other 19th century greats, Hawthorne, Melville and Mark Twain. Over and above the others, James proved to be an enlightening bridge to the greatest of 20th century writing. In his psychological probings, he prefigured Proust's monumental Remembrance of Things Past. And in his "wonder of consciousness in everything," he pebbled the bed on which James Joyce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Memories of a Mandarin | 5/7/1956 | See Source »

...Amrita and Nectar in a Sieve, the latter by the author of the latest Indian entry, Some Inner Fury. The bulk of these novels pursue one theme-the disruptive impact of Western manners, morals and ideas on the semifeudal, arch-familistic patterns of Eastern life. Kipling said "never the twain shall meet"; the novelists of the East seem to be ruefully saying "never the twain shall part," and rather regretting that East and West met headon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Never the Twain . . . | 3/12/1956 | See Source »

...corrupt"-by which he means that she has a roving eye. As the story begins, Lana goes flouncing off to India to pick up a stallion from a maharani's stable. Enter Dr. Safti (Richard Burton), an untouchable who has been educated in England, and pretty soon the twain are meeting under every deodar that could stand the trip to California. Maybe it's yoga and maybe not, but Lana suddenly realizes what she has been needing all her life. They decide to get married, but then there's that tiresome old Rennie, and besides there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Double Trouble | 1/9/1956 | See Source »

...wrote slashing articles for the Saturday Review and Harper's. Under the name of John August, he made his daily bread with serials and stories for the slicks. He became custodian of the Mark Twain papers, produced three books (Mark Twain's America, Mark Twain in Eruption, Mark Twain at Work) that rescued Twain from the pryings of psychoanalytical critics. His interest in Twain was characteristic of his down-to-earth Americanism: while his fellow writers were busy exiling themselves to Europe, DeVoto remained stubbornly rooted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Challenger | 11/28/1955 | See Source »

...true, as Mark Twain once remarked, that a community can be known by the funerals it holds, then The History of American Funeral Directing, by Sociologist Robert W. Habenstein and Historian William M. Lamers, may reveal more about America than many Americans want to know. Though the style of the authors is as dry as Aristotle's ashes, their history of the social, commercial, sanitary, sexual, artistic and religious relations between the living and the dead has a great and gruesome fascination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Death, American Plan | 10/24/1955 | See Source »

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