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...Columbia University when she met John King in 1941. She was a dietitian at Grasmere's Moore General Hospital when her husband ran for Governor, quit her job to help organize women volunteers for the campaign, filled in for him on several speaking engagements. An avid reader and ardent gardener, she has an intelligent grasp of problems, but foresees no great change in her way of life now that she is the Governor's wife. New Hampshire has no governor's mansion, so official social life will be limited. Says she simply: "I will just...
...equality. The tragedy of this republic was that as long as human slavery existed its base had a fallacy that made it both incongruous and specious." So writes this year's visiting William Pitt Professor of American History and Institutions at Cambridge University, and only an occasional reader will sense that John Hope Franklin is himself a descendant of slaves. "I have maintained my objectivity," says Franklin, "but it takes some doing...
...book's weakness is its uncertainty of intent. Novelist Jones never seems to have made up his mind whether he was writing a fantasy or a piece of purely historical fiction. When the hero goes to the gallows, a reader can only wonder whether the eye of the Wise Man of Ty Cerrig sent him there-or circumstantial evidence and a bamboozled jury. In fact, The Walk Home is best read as a sort of historical travelogue rather than a novel. It tells a reader all he needs to know-or will want to-of a semibarbarous land...
...Johnson, like a sleight-of-hand artist who asks a member of the audience to check his top hat for rabbits, skillfully engages the reader in his literary experiments. Sometimes he talks to him directly about the problems of writing. Achim begins this way: "So I thought I'd start out with a simple sentence, gravely, something like: she telephoned him, period, then I'd add: across the border, casually, as though it were the most natural thing in the world, as a surprise, to make you think you understand." Sometimes he studs his text with disarming headlines...
...thinking, Johnson has tried to invent an entirely neutral language. It avoids metaphor. It examines not souls but outer surfaces, which can be seen and verified. What emerges with surprising vividness is a finely woven texture of physical existence in the East zone. Against this background, a Western reader, spurred by the effort to fill in the outlines of individual emotion only hinted at by the author, soon begins to speculate on small and large moral questions. Sample problem for a border guard: A man is escaping. I must shoot. But should I shoot to kill? Sample problem...