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...American who has known neither the alienation of a broken English middle-class family, nor the indignity of the tyrannical master, much less the search for philosophical stability which came in an age so recently disillusioned, the story is seldom real. Wander through it with an admiration for the man's mind, a sense of having done little where he has done much, but you will not in all probability find any rapport. While the story is not typical of those born at the turn of the century, (as he suggests, he "has always been a converted Pagan living among...
...biography is alien. It can for most readers prove only an interesting, not a moving account, because at heart, conversion is unsharable, and Lewis too much respects both his own and others' privacy to recreate what in himself would be accessible to most readers. His use of false names and his resentment above all else of what he calls intrusion are appealing, but they do not make compelling autobiography...
...slightly by making hers a lost-and-found generation novel. In the pages of The Malefactors, the mourning after the big Paris binge becomes a kind of purgatory on the road to religious serenity. In keeping with its semi-autobiographic overtones (Author Gordon and her poet-critic-novelist husband, Alien Tate, are recent Roman Catholic converts), this book is one of those Mary McCarthy-like exercises in intellectual cattiness in which one claws one's literary coterie in public...
...have no politics," Washington Lawyer F. (for Florence) Joseph Donohue protested piously in 1951. "As a resident of the District of Columbia, I am like an alien enemy, a convicted felon or an adjudicated lunatic in that I have no vote." Last week, chumming with reporters in his new role as national campaign manager for Estes Kefauver, "Jiggs" Donohue had plenty of politics, but few worries about convictions or adjudications. Said he of his hard-campaigning candidate: "Estes is doing a really good job out there. I told him when he went...
...past, the clutched hope for the future, the crumbling desperation of the moment. If she missed pathos, she was fumbling, at least, after tragedy. The whole performance, indeed, might have come off a real tour de force-except that Tallulah's inherent force was the one thing alien to the part...