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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...LONG WING (246 pp.)-Elizabeth Fenwick-Rlnehart...
...Long Wing is a story of the impact of the Maclouds on 18-year-old Nora. Quietly written, with even less "plot" and hardly more fictional fireworks than might be found in an Elizabeth Bowen story, it is perceptive, skillful, and now & then witty. Emerson once shrewdly observed: "Most of the persons whom I see in my own house I see across a gulf." This is an account of the Macloud gulf, told mostly in terms of young Nora's reactions and those of her father, who at points finds himself quite as baffled...
...modest, sometimes wan little book, The Long Wing is unlikely to cause much ruckus in the lending libraries, but it is as able a first novel as the season has shown thus far. Author Elizabeth Fenwick, a slim, soft-spoken girl of 26, was born in St. Louis; her marriage in 1941 to a French instructor at Cornell barely outlasted the war. She now lives alone in a basement apartment near the Cornell campus, writing a second novel of family life. Says she: "Families fascinate me, probably because I've never had any real family life myself...
Monday's tilt with Arlington revealed unexpected power in the Freshman second-string line, which pulled the team up by its ankle wraps after a slow first period. Left wing Larry Ward, right wing Gid Loring, and center Haven Abbett were easily "the outstanding line on the ice," Coach Stan Priddy stated after the contest...
...these reforms could not be achieved under Chiang. Having broken with the Communists in 1927, Chiang's alignment with the right-wing of the Kuomintang is portrayed by the authors as his retreat from dynamism into the morass of warlord-infested intrigue government. Mr. White and Miss Jacoby are not alone in diagnosing complete cynicism and corruption as the secondary invaders of the diseased Kuomintang body politic. This accusation is not fiction, but page after page of documented fact that will force thinking Americans to search about for an alternative to an ally-government that is bringing China to misery...