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...also something of a warlock and misleads both women from couch to bed; Palmer's sister, Dr. Honor Klein, a notable witch and anthropologist given to fingering a samurai sword while talking of herself as a severed head (see Freud on Medusa, a character hopefully prompts the reader). Lynch-Gibbon, a glutton for grief, is, of course, transfixed by this menacing Gorgon. By what black psychological thimbleriggery their union is achieved-despite innumerable obstacles of which incest appears to be the least-is too intricate to be described. A mythological key is provided on the novel's last...
Initial Conclusion: By all means, read Schelling and Halperin. Nearly every reader of this review will find Hadley totally worthless...
Loud huzzahs have rung out for Mayer's presentation of real-life episodes straight from the classroom. But there are barely enough of them to keep the casual reader awake as he plows through acres of badly-presented theory and travelogue. (Mayer went to England, France, Denmark, Finland, and Norway, as well as places in the U.S.--which just broadened an already unmanageable scope...
...three. And his choice of words is appalling, often obscuring his point. When Mayer begins a description of what he considers a good teacher by calling her "a big, bouncy, bony, blond girl, under thirty, who talks at a lightning pace," he should realize that he is prejudicing the reader...
...this point the reader may well ask if Toynbee hasn't totally disqualified himself as the author of his own book. The answer is no. Anyone who has read the History knows that he treats himself too harshly. The ignorance he pleads is, in fact, a relative thing: what single historian other than he knows so much or has used his knowledge with such soaring imagination? And who besides Spengler has had the audacity to escape from the drugging minutiae of documentary sweepings into the exhilarating reaches of man's whole past? Toynbee lacerates himself too much...