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...history books, but Niebuhr's Christianity and Crisis found enough troubling issues to keep right on publishing. This week the magazine celebrates its 25th anniversary by sponsoring a colloquium on mankind's present crisis and a banquet at which the main speaker will be Longtime Reader Hubert Humphrey...
...motiveless. The identities of the characters and/or freaks are seen for the first time, but they are recognizable as old friends or enemies, and the most bizarre events are totally credible. The question of truth never arises; it is only the interpreter of the dream who is confused. The reader -or dream interpreter -will have to sup ply his own factual journalism...
...grocer's boy in Sarsaparilla (a coyly satirical name for the Sydney district of Parramatta). Arthur is seen by his neighbors at the end of Terminus Road as a "dill," a "no-hoper," a "loopy," a "nut," a "mophret" (hermaphrodite), and "a dirty old man." The reader sympathizes with these brisk Aussie judgments; Arthur is indeed hard to follow as he mumbles about the place goggling at the dreary scenery or polishing that glass marble with the two spirals inside...
...would seem that the old Confederate camp had moved to a last site in the real Deep South-Down Under; that the old Spanish-mosstroopers of Southern decadence ride again in New South Wales. White's celebrated style, in its sidelong, suggestive, subjunctive way, might nudge a reader to the conclusion that this is like early Capote or Tennessee Williams. And, somehow, White has contrived to convert a scrubby Australian suburb into standard Old South gothic. Moldering mansions are in short supply Down Under, but White does what he can with "gothic" grass around the Brown house, wormy quince...
...However, something more is meant in The Solid Mandala: White intends to pluck a theological plum from the prunes of his style. For 20 years prestigious critics in both Britain and the U.S. have found in White the stuff of literary greatness. Dutifully following the critics' advice, the reader will find hints of great profundities behind the gothic facade. In the first place, the mandala does not simply demonstrate the exclusiveness of one consciousness from another's-even in twin brothers. Mandala does that brilliantly -the same events being seen in succession through the eyes of Waldo...