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...UPSTART by PIERS PAUL READ 335 pages. Lippincott...
...Upstart, Piers Paul Read, novelist son of the distinguished British critic Sir Herbert Read, certainly sounds more like the child of a match between Emily Bronte and Graham Greene. He may fall shy of Bronte's storms on the English heath and Greene's storms in the Christian heart...
...take Hil ary Fletcher's miseries as solemnly as he does himself- even if one grants that a second-rate British public school is "worse than prison" and that hell knows no torment like an Englishman at the hunt ball whose jacket fails to fit. Alas, The Upstart stipulates that exactly this sort of class embarrassment can still drive a dated Angry Young Man to organize ten years of his life so that he may debauch the daughters of the neighboring lord of the manor in their silk-sheeted beds, wipe out the son's inheritance at roulette...
...moral premise of The Upstart is that good and evil develop simultaneously within a human being, though only the saint mask or, as in Hilary's case, the sinner mask may be visible at one time. How does innocence survive its season of corruption? That is the question Read raises, and because he is an ambitious writer, he dares to risk absurdity by answering them with a climax that builds toward one word: grace...
...Yale head coach Phil Moriarity has kept his team on top. Last year the Elis surfaced after a couple of dual meet losses to take the Easterns. This year Yale has staged a full-fledged comeback, beating pre-season favorite Princeton and upstart Dartmouth. It is dangerously close to yet another undefeated, league-championship season...