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...parish recorder, sacristan, or surogate, in Stratford, the genesis of the delicate creation?" And George Steiner, writing of Painter's biography of Proust, said that it was so explicit, gave so many details of Proust's life that bore directly on A la recherche du temps perdu, that no reader of the biography could possibly respond to the novel in a fresh and unprejudiced...
Rags clearly is not for every young reader. But it is not meant to be. The magazine, explains Publisher Baron Wolman, 33, is aimed at the young who regard fashion as "an opportunity for self-expression, fulfillment of little head trips, a chance to try something different, to break tradition and stereotype." Adds Editor Mary Peacock, 27, a former staffer at Harper's Bazaar: "Fashion is not fashionable any more. The slick magazines are always telling you how you should look. We do it the other way around. We report what people are wearing without trying to change them...
Daniel P. Moynihan, one of the Administration's few conspicuous phrasemakers and men of letters, was caught in a literary lapse by a New York Times reader who could not believe that the Presidential Counsellor meant to say "We have become a noisome country" in a recent speech. Moynihan confessed in his letter to the paper that "after hasty consultation with Webster's Second Edition," he had tried-unsuccessfully-to swing a deal with a reporter to have the word rendered as "querulous." Then he concluded with a verbal flourish: "Thus does truth subvert semantics...
...Meredith's case, the style was truly the reflection of the man. For all his sermons against the sin of pride, he was an egoist writing about egoism. Thus the modern reader of his books is nearly suffocated by the presence of Mine Host, nudging, lecturing, possessed, as the novelist himself confessed, by the "cursed desire to show the reason." Nonetheless, it was Meredith's "splendid vanity," concludes Pritchett, that gave him the strength to put his contradictions on the line and struggle to resolve them. That, for Meredith, was what it meant to write a novel...
...also contracted gonorrhea twice, which indicates Martin has done a thorough, factual job, but the reader is left short of seeing the heated interface of West's artistic ambitions and the political exigencies of his era. Part of Martin's problem lies in his understanding of the political atmosphere of the thirties. Liberal, Trotskyite, Socialist and Stalinist are used interchangeably, or with the most superficial transitions. But West's relation to the different political groups is never satisfactorily explained, consequently abandoning an important interpretive tool. The work is an invaluable source book, but "The Art of His Life...