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...called A Visit to Morin. Presented along with a slight bouquet of recent literary Greenery, Morin is fascinating (and likely to draw more attention than the other stories in the book) precisely because it seems to carry Greene a razor's edge closer to despair than did A Burnt-Out Case, his most recent novel...
Their defeat at Kirby's hands not only ended the Texas brothers' march on Wall Street, but will cause some changes in the operation of their $150 million empire. Says one Dallas financial consultant:"The boys got badly burnt. I think they'll stick to their knitting for a time and stay out of large publicly held companies." In the past, the brothers' most successful operations have been in private companies where they held absolute control, could call the shots without being fenced in by the fear of shareholders' suits and SEC regulations. Admits John...
Eclipse. A mess of burnt-out butts. A young man (Francisco Rabal) and a young woman (Monica Vitti) sit looking at them, at what is left of their relationship. ''I tried to make you happy," he says hopelessly, and hopelessly she replies: "You did not succeed." Why not? What was missing in their lives? What do people need in order to be happy? In this gloomy little masterpiece, Michelangelo Antonioni does not try to answer such questions. He simply shows how one young woman tried to answer them-and failed. He tells the story of a luteless Orpheus...
Wash-and-Wear Ulysses. The Ulysses of this uneven Odyssey is Professor Arnold Soby, a burnt-out romantic case (his young wife had died years before) with little left but his literary allusions. Encrusted with irony, hobbled by a pedagogue's inability to face life except in terms of art, Soby nevertheless fancies himself a secret worshiper of the wisdom of the body-for him symbolized by the bacchic visions that lured Gustav Aschenbach, the aging hero of Thomas Mann's famous novella, Death in Venice, to a debasing but idyllic passion for a beautiful young...
Sensel, the top was bare. Why did we then Arrive like victors, bird nor biug to grace Our coming 7 only sun and sky and space, Burnt rock, primevel wind, and other...