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Died. Victoria Mary Sackville-West, 70, genteel English authoress, a lanky noblewoman whose needlepoint prose and aloof mien made her a leading light in the Bloomsbury Group of Lytton Strachey, John Maynard Keynes and Virginia Woolf (who portrayed her as the fantastic heroine of Orlando) and who herself, though home-educated in her family's 365-room castle, penned a tapestry of 33 books, from biographies (Daughter of France) to novels (No Signposts in the Sea) and a history of nursery rhymes; in Sissinghurst Castle, Kent, England...
...couldn't see what Sartre saw in the girl. Finally, to exorcise this succubus, Simone wrote her first successful novel, L'Invitee, which told how a young woman moved in on a sympathetic couple and so demoralized them that the wife eventually murdered her. Of this denouement. Authoress de Beauvoir says: "By killing Olga on paper I purged every twinge of resentment ... I felt for her ... Above all, by releasing [ the wife], through the agency of crime, from the dependent position in which her love for Pierre [i.e., Sartre] kept her. I regained my personal autonomy." The triangle...
...retrospect, Authoress de Beauvoir is as critical of her extended adolescence as anybody could be. "We were like elves," she says, describing her and Sartre's lack of responsibility. In the end, a scrupulous, elfish self-examination is what she mainly has to offer...
...over Tintoretto. In so doing. Authoress Murdoch. 42. who in real life is a philosophy professor at Oxford, has denied herself many of the props she resorted to in her earlier novels. Scrapped is the totally grotesque seduction. (Nobody tries to make love in an upturned church bell.) Gone is the really weird character. (In one book, a lady anthropologist expertly brandishes a samurai sword and refers to herself as a severed head.) Except for a knife driven through a doll's heart, one attempted suicide, a to-do over whether old Hugh Peronett should sell his beloved Tintoretto...
Thus, the authoress of the post-card that sparked the demonstrations is a girl of upper middle-class background who, as her father informed the Boston press, had not a single clue--in terms of personal experiences--as to what underdeveloped conditions of life are like. No doubt, it was the function of myself and other members of the faculty staff that trained her and her colleagues, to provide some understanding of these conditions; and as far as I am concerned, we did so as best we could...