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...that he is in a spectral dock on trial on a self-accusing charge-that his life has become an obscenity. The inner motion of this drama is the ritual of exorcism; Maitland wants to banish the voracious demons of his mind and conscience. But his witnesses are all mirror images of his decay, shadowy chroniclers of loss, rejection, betrayal and defeat. His upbraided, long-suffering clerks are walking legal briefs drawn up against Maitland's corrosive contempt for his work. His wife is Maitland's petition in domestic bankruptcy. His mistress and his casual office couchmates...
...Ordinary Business. "Each side," said Raskin, "convinced of its own eternal rectitude, sees the other with the grotesque distortions of a fun-house mirror." To make matters worse "defections and internal feuds have riddled the centra] organizations on which both sides once relied to promote industrial stability." Though they had talked over the issues for a full six months before the strike, neither the Times nor the Guild was prepared for serious collective bargaining. On the crucial question of the Times's pension plan, the "Guild did not bring in either an actuary or a program until after...
From Realms Remote. In a dubious compliment, London's Daily Mirror described the new Rolls as having a "Mod look," and the Daily Telegraph exulted that the car "has stepped down from some realm remote from ordinary things and is now 'with it.' " But the style changes shocked and saddened traditionalists. The magazine Auto-Journal observed that by bringing the car "into the classic line of everyman's car, Rolls no longer strikes the eye and thus loses a great part of its singularity and originality." Paris' Le Monde regretted that "Rolls is losing little...
Several months later, Marston ordered two manuscripts from a London dealer, one of which was a modestly priced portion of the Speculum Historiale (Mirror of History) compiled by Vincent of Beauvais, the famed encyclopedist of the Middle Ages. When the Speculum manuscript arrived, it was in such an attractive 15th century binding that Dealer Witten asked to examine it. That night Witten telephoned Marston in great excitement. The Speculum manuscript was the key to the puzzle of the Vinland map and the text of the Carpini mission, which was later to be called "the Tartar Relation." The manuscript was written...
...WORLDS OF ROBERT E. SHERWOOD, Mirror to His Times by John Mason Brown. 409 pages. Harper...