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...Right Time. Quite a few companies have asked colleges and Negro organizations to help them find Negro management trainees. In some cases this is a calculated gesture, a sort of bend-over-backward bow that has been forced by social and political pressures. Says New York University Associate Placement Director Andre Beaumont...
...BACKWARD GLANCE by Edith Wharton. 385 pages. Scribner...
Watershed of Manners. The story is not included in A Backward Glance-and not surprisingly. Scott Fitzgerald and Edith Wharton were separated by more than several stiff drinks and the span of a generation. They stood on opposite sides of what she came to think of as the Great Social Divide-World War I-and no effort could reach across that watershed of manners...
...difficulty becomes fascinatingly clear in her restrained, carefully cultivated autobiography, first published in 1934 and now reissued. Her backward glance is to "an old tradition of European culture which the country has now totally rejected" and which she herself partially rejected. But she could not reject it entirely, and so she suffered the disadvantage of being a perpetual outsider, resentful of an older social order but fearful of what replaced...
...Backward Glance describes instead the last years in France, when she was already a legend, hostess to most of France's literary lights (although she never sought out Proust, whose work she admired, because she suspected him of being a "climber"). Her enormous output (42 novels) yielded her easily $75,000 a year. Yet the feeling of nonbelonging, she confesses, never really left her. Looking back, she saw herself as the last survivor of a civilization "as remote as Atlantis or the lowest layer of Schliemann's Troy...