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THE OBSESSION OF EMMET BOOTH, by Martha Albrand (240 pp.; Random House: $3.50), is a psychological suspense story, and the suspense derives from the question whether Beauty will succumb to the Beast. The Beauty of the story, widow of a paragonish professor, is Miranda Page, who looks like something out...
¶ Jacques Lipchitz, 65, who was born in Lithuania, came to the U.S. from France in 1941 (and became a citizen two weeks ago), falls somewhere between Lardera and Manzu. He has long since left his cubist period behind, and his work has become much more lyrical and expressive. Since...
Damon sees his mother die a Christian martyr and feels his mission to be learning the truths of this strange new sect to determine its place in his own life. His initial reaction is, "If that's your religion, I say to hell with it." He thinks Christianity has a...
Dolls for Britain. Christian Dior is a product of three centuries of elegance that run back to the reign of King Louis XIV. To control the restive feudal nobles he subdued, Louis built the huge palace at Versailles, turned it into a vast gilded cage where the aristocracy, cut off...
In his 94 years. George Bernard Shaw took up every sort of cause from Fabianism to vegetarianism to antivivisection. But he had one obsession that puzzled even his closest friends. "They think it a huge joke," he once complained. "It's the most serious proposal of my life." His...