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WARWICK THE KINGMAKER, by Paul Murray Kendall. A vivid, expertly handled biography of the Earl of Warwick, the fascinating 15th century British kingmaker who fought in turn on both sides in the bloody civil Wars of the Roses, eventually became drunk with power and died while trying to drink more...
...self-governing terms, the play is vivid and often impressive. And unlike the book, it is not rampantly autobiographical, not literally self-centered. The Eugene Gant who is Thomas Wolfe, imprisoned though he may feel, impassioned though he may grow, is less the protagonist, more just part of a memorable tribe. There is the well-meaning, property-loving, family-exploiting, sympathy-maneuvering mother. There is the lusty ruin of a father, with a heroic gift for drink and denunciation, and a sense of values for all his violences. There is Eugene's snappish, put-upon sister; there...
...story concerns a young prince, disconsolate over the death of a vivid, orchid-eating ballerina. He lives on a vast French estate that has reproduced the world of inns and nightclubs and ice-cream wagons that were part of his romance. Into this world the prince's wacky, loving duchess aunt brings a young milliner who greatly resembles the ballerina. The aunt hopes that her nephew will fall in love once more. At first he resents and snubs the girl, while she surmises that he has never really loved the dancer. But soon all goes spinningly...
...Psychology (TIME, Dec. 24), feels that the insights of depth psychology in The Cloud of Unknowing, written by an unknown English monk around 1375, have made it "alive again with meaning and usefulness" for modern man. To enlarge the book's modern audience, Progoff has "translated" it from vivid, lilting 14th century English-which has made it a favorite treasure-trove of poets, including T. S. Eliot-into clearer, plainer language.* Progoff has also translated many of the book's spiritual precepts into psychological terms...
...After all these years my pleasant memory of O'Neill in the work is far more vivid than the memory of the details of that work...