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...Dark Is Light Enough. Other notable stories include Backwards, a knockdown farce that deflates the modern millionaire's cringing devotion to liberal cliches; Josse, a tale of venomous and elderly siblings caught in a snarling web of dependence; and The Boy Martin, in which a corrupt young whippersnapper discovers that his elders are even snappier and far more corrupt...
James Hanley is the kind of Irishman who gives the impression that his life has been a knockdown, drag-out fight with reality. To enter his literary world is to enter a dark room in which at first the sparse furniture seems made of human bones. But as the slow light comes up through the long narrative, it is made clear that the ribs on the wall are a hatrack, that the upended coffin is a wardrobe and the skull under the bed is a more commonplace utensil...
...found her own museum of modern art. At the outbreak of World War II, she took the proposed museum's purchase list across the Channel, embarked on a frantic buying spree of "a picture a day'' in Paris that netted her a museumful of art at knockdown prices...
...contest. His bet lost, Brown complained of a "cynical deal engineered by a reactionary darling hell-bent for the White House." But Pat Brown, described by a friend as "a great big Teddy bear who doesn't want to grow claws," has never shown any liking for a knockdown drag-out fight. And that was the only kind of fight anyone could expect from Republican Bill Knowland, with his immense California prestige, his boiler-room energy and his powerful friends...
...G.O.P. State Central Committee sent California Republicans a letter bemoaning "impending Republican Party suicide," suggesting that Bill Knowland remove himself as a gubernatorial possibility. Knowland "cannot possibly muster the broad popular support which is necessary to win the governorship," the letter said, and if he insists on a knockdown, drag-out primary with Knight, "the resultant Democratic swing well might take not only the governorship but the other major constitutional posts, the U.S. Senatorship, the majority of the Congressional delegation and the Legislature...