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...UNICORN (311 pp.)-Iris Murdoch-Viking...
...most picturesque coffee house in town is the Unicorn, nestled in a basement opposite the new Prudential Center on Boylston St. Unfortunately, the entertainment here is not as high in quality as the pine-paneling or the interior decorating. Undoubtedly it is the most professional of Boston's coffee-houses. It has the highest cover charge--$2.00 on weekends and $1.50 on week nights. Often it gets outstanding acts like the Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem, but all too often the acts are slick folkum and just plain don't swing...
...show that Dodgson suffered from a "reversal of unresolved Oedipal attachment." In the untidy, inventive White Knight, who of all Carroll's characters is the only one who shows affection for Alice, scholars see a self-caricature. Some commentators think that the battle of his Lion and Unicorn was intended as a satire on Gladstone and Disraeli...
...Laura (Williams' sister Rose) has a mind and a personality as fragile as the little glass animals that deck her room. But the mother dragoons Tom into bringing home a marriageable "gentleman caller" for Laura. When the caller turns out to be engaged, and unintentionally breaks the pet unicorn in Laura's menagerie, the girl's future can be read in the fractured glass. At play's end, Tom lunges free of family, but for the playwright-to-be the future would always be trapped in the past...
...have been developed in the discussions of tacit bargaining by Professor Schelling and extensively in the writings of Professor Charles E. Osgood of Illinois. The Defense Department has recently solicited proposals for an extended study of arms control measures which the United States might undertake on its own (Project Unicorn...