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...Wallaces of course - father, daughter, mother and son-who have reduced the practice to its final and most lucrative essence: an encyclopedia of what our celebrated betters, lessers, do between the sheets. How was Napoleon in bed? Or Victor Hugo, Eva Perón or Virginia Woolf? Just ask the Wallaces. (The short answers: terrible, terrific, often and rarely...
...aise [Feb. 16], points up the two choices that are open to brilliant women who are praised belatedly and paternalistically. They can either refuse the honor on the ground that it is unacceptable from such groups, or accept it in order to set a precedent for others. Virginia Woolf responded to many universities offering honorary degrees in the first way. Yourcenar has replied in the second. If I were she, I would have suggested where the monkeys might put their peanuts. Judging from your article, however, I am not nearly as nice as Marguerite Yourcenar...
Many of Bowen's stories were influenced by the work of Henry James and Virginia Woolf. What saves them from the pallid artiness of imitation is the author's taste for melodrama. She knows how to slip in the bizarre or improbable for the purpose of raising expectations, not eyebrows. Ghosts walk in some of these tales, and they are not explained away as wandering, ectoplasmic neuroses. They are what they are. Bowen's fiction is sometimes as strange as truth. In The Evil That Men Do-, a bored housewife writes a love letter...
...children later discovered that her own daughter had thereby been made ineligible to check out the Bible. One group, a Florida organization called Save Our Children, has simplified its censorship goals by proposing to purge from libraries all books by such reputed homosexuals as Emily Dickinson, Willa Gather, Virginia Woolf, Tennessee Williams, Walt Whitman and John Milton...
...Lady from Dubuque. Edward Albee's latest work is his best since Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? In a typical Albee setting-the living room-three couples trade laceratingly funny insults and wait for the lady from D., i.e.., the angel of death...