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...riding horseback often, spending each weekend at the house he was born in, to which he has added a top story and a green-tiled bath. A dynamic orator with a superb rabble-raising style, he talks to his people nowadays in weekly radio chats, using simple Arabic and vivid images. He dislikes administrative responsibility and paper work, loves parties and the theater, seldom dines with fewer than 20. A light eater and sleeper, he lives for the cut and thrust of politics, admits, "I am a political animal." He still keeps up his wide contacts with more progressive French...
...Grayscreen Gangster." Author Kerouac is a cut-rate Thomas Wolfe, and he writes in vivid if not always lucid gushes and rushes, a style he attributes to the rambling reminiscences of his French Canadian mother. Sample, describing movies : "O grayscreen gangster cocktail rainy-day roaring gunshot spectral immortality B movie tire pile black-in-the-mist Wild-america but it's a crazy world!" In one sense, Author Kerouac's dithyrambic denial of mind may be salutary in an age that overrationalizes and overanalyzes existence. But if the concept of the beat generation can be reduced...
Garden District comprises two Tennessee Williams plays laid in New Orleans. Something Unspoken, dealing with an uppity society woman and her secretary-companion, is a warm-up piece that leaves the spectator cold. Suddenly Last Summer is a vivid display of Williams' unique virtues and persisting excesses. A kind of psychological suspense piece, it works backward from the knowledge of a self-luxuriating "poet's" death to the nature of it. His rich, ruthless mother had long shared her son's dubious traveled life, but when she had a slight stroke, he took a young girl cousin...
...will make of thee a great nation.'' What were Abraham's country and kindred like, and what sort of land did God show him? Modern scholarship, drawing on the latest findings of archaeology and textual research, is able to propose answers to those questions in vivid and imaginative detail. Most of the answers are pulled together in a new, smoothly written book for laymen: Abraham: His Heritage and Ours, by Boston Writer Dorothy B. Hill (Beacon Press...
...Witham, England. One of Oxford's first women graduates (Somerville College, 1915), Dorothy Sayers gained fame and fortune with her deft mysteries, wrote religious dramas for the Church of England's Canterbury Festival, worked since 1947 on her magnum opus, Dante's Divine Comedy in a vivid, homiletic translation, completed two canticles (Inferno, 1949; Purgatorio, 1955) before her death...