Word: randomness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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JOURNEY TO THE ENDS OF TIME (475 pp.)-Sacheverell Sitwell-Random House...
...CAVE (403 pp.)-Robert Penn Warren-Random House...
...INSPECTOR, by Helen Reilly (207 pp.; Random House; $2.95), the author's 32nd published novel, is peopled with stylish, upper-middle-class Manhattanites who yearn for just those few extra thousands a year. This sort of yearning leads to murder for profit. The romantic side of the plot, offering the heroine a wide choice of elegant men, documents the complexity of a woman's mind and heart. The case is wrapped up by Inspector McKee, nagged by his boss the commissioner, who, in turn, is nagged by political pressures. Expertly tooled and shined, soundly constructed...
SHADOW OF GUILT, by Patrick Quenfin (211 pp.; Random House; $2.95), has a hero who is both a stuffed shirt and a weakling. He hesitates to tell his wife, a beautiful, bustling, overbearing heiress, that he wants to divorce her and marry his secretary, a colorless, clinging type named Eve. This triangular time bomb is the dominant theme. The younglove interest is entrusted to a boy who seems to be losing his wits (his mother died in a mental institution) anoa pretty juvenile delinquent who is in danger of making a habit of motel weekends with married men. The murder...
...interest, in La Rochefoucauld's view, was clearly the carrot that made men trot, as money was later singled out by Balzac, and sex by Freud. Yet, in obsessively concentrating on one human trait, as Author-Critic Louis Kronenberger points out in his new translation of the Maxims (Random House; $3.50), La Rochefoucauld narrowed his vision. Indeed, some of the maxims are strangely naive and platitudinous, suggesting once again that cynicism is sentimentality in reverse-and that, perhaps, the sheltered courtier could have learned from the crude common sense of the peasant. Yet at his best, as Kronenberger puts...