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...identity of the man in the portrait is still a mystery, but Reader Richardson is correct that St. Ivo Helory of Kermartin was known for his defense of the poor. The National Gallery titles the painting...
...victim to a disease he had thought only struck his friends: a paralyzing "fear of life." An enviable job and a beautiful mistress seem like heavy burdens; each day is a "grim calvary." Desperate, he decides to spend some time with his sister in Limoges. Neither he nor the reader is much surprised to find that the most fascinating figure in local society, Nathalie Silvener, falls deeply in love with him. Her tenderness and loyalty gradually restore Gilles' equilibrium. When he goes back to Paris, she joins him. But Nathalie has a daily beauty in her life that makes...
...impression of swiftness that is her signature is as strong as ever. She is as clear and easy to read as Jane Austen, and though Austen was a genius and Sagan is merely talented, they have other things in common. Both evoke a comfortable trust from the reader because they rarely strike a false note, and both tend to decorate their pages with asides and epigrams. Here, for instance, is Gilles noting Nathalie's bookishness: "A well-read woman is less of a nuisance," he decides. "She knows more or less what to expect...
...volume of essays entitled The State and the Poor. Sponsored by the Kennedy Institute of Politics, this Faculty Study Group argued, with one eye on the 1970 state elections, that the state ought to develop a comprehensive antipoverty program. The book has now appeared in paperback, and the general reader can try to guess what audience the fourteen contributing authors had in mind- social scientists, bureaucrats, or just politicos running for office. It will be hard to tell. When committees write books, coherent argument usually suffers. Only the two editors, Samuel H. Beer and Richard E. Barringer, actually make...
Written in the second person, most of the principles are didactic aphorisms which exhort the reader to hard work, self-denial and service to society. "Be firm! Be strong! Be a man! And then... be an angel!" counsels principle number...