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Gentlemanly Idling. At Cambridge in the '20s, a pose of homosexuality was acceptable and even fashionable, but for Tim White the matter was too serious for posing. Biographer Warner maintains an apparently deliberate reticence on the subject, but as clearly as the reader can determine from her patchy discussion, White was never able to accept homosexuality wholeheartedly. Nor could he really reject it. His solution was solitude, and his cure for solitude was Merlyn's: learning things and teaching...
...whether it would be possible to obtain TIME a little earlier than it is usually available on the newsstands in New York. Her reason unfolded one of the seemingly small-but particularly human-stories of how TIME is used after it gets into the hands of the reader...
...then, at times, Updike's virtuosity leads to excess that smothers meaning and clogs the reader's senses as when he writes of "the shallow amber depths where the lemon slice like an embryo swam." That is a bowl of soup...
...Hero L.B.J. and Other Dirty Stories. Simon and Schuster's Quotations from Chairman L.B.J. is suddenly mustier than Mao, and Macmillan's Sam Johnson's Boy, an unflattering account of Lyndon as a Texas politico, due in June, now seems hardly momentous. Though continued reader interest in Johnson may help rescue many of the books scheduled before his-or their-withdrawal, publishers all at once seem more interested in biographies of Ivan the Terrible and Ethelred the Unready...
...must endure all the chic, swinging, semihighbrow parties before one of the nubile feathery birds will sing for him. A brisk, no-nonsense sort of novelist, Glanville catches wonderfully the spiv tone of conversation in swinging London. As a study in frustration, The Artist Type succeeds in making the reader sad for the hero, but not nearly so sad as the hero is for himself...