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...wound up feeling that they had a vested interest in his future. McCollum came through: he graduated second in his class. Now McCollum is at Brown University, and this summer he is using a translated Russian physics text in a research project financed by the National Science Foundation. His reader: Morton Hamermesh, assistant director of the Argonne National Laboratory near Chicago, who helped to translate the book...
14th Century Comfort. A man with a big head and hair that needs to be cut, Holbrook turned to teaching out of necessity in order to finance his creative writing of poetry and criticism after a career at Cambridge as a reader in English under famed Critic F. R. Leavis. Now comfortably settled with his wife and three children in a 14th century cottage in a hamlet near his alma mater, Holbrook earns far more in royalties as an anthologizer and educational gadfly (total sales: 80,000 copies) than he ever did as a teacher or fiction writer...
...page 31, Bertrand begins to speculate about writing a treatise, in the form of a novel, to be titled: The Phenomenology of Physical Love. The secret is out; this Don Juan is not a sexual athlete but a literary one, an aspiring philosopher of womanizing. As the reader reads on, he discovers that Claude Mauriac's new novel is hardly a novel at all, but more an anthology of aphorisms about the Frenchmen's favorite topic...
...much air in Author Clark's book. She lards her account with odd facts (the pearl producer is not an oyster at all but a mollusk known as Meleagrina), sketches of local characters, and wordy, impressionistic evocations of the Breton countryside. At such moments a reader's attention may well wander, but for the most part Author Clark holds him with wit and verbal polish. It is the process known as tromper le lecteur...
...Prescott's Justin a "Garden of Eden," as one student believes, or a place of "little shrill idealism," as another thinks? The reader can take his choice though Auchincloss, who apparently enjoyed his own tutelage at Groton, emphasizes the shrillness. Auchincloss is careful to disassociate his hero-headmaster from any real-life counterpart like Groton's Endicott Peabody, but Old Boys everywhere will nevertheless recognize the rector as a familiar enough type. Auchincloss may seem to have expended too much sound and fury over something so small in the universe as a prep school; a crazed...