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...swimming lump" an unborn fawn. The boatman in "A Room Forever" knows that he is physically hurting the young girl, "a kid playing whose, "who offers herself to him, but takes her just the same. Brutality isn't used for cheap thrills, though, but rather to sharpen the reader's awareness that injury and cruelly are facts of life. The moments show more clearly how the characters bear pain and the problems of conscience that come from causing...
...TENDS TO BE suspicious of children's poetry books simply because they seem a little self-righteous. Their very existence implies ignorance of boorishness on the part of the reader, as if to say, "You don't realize the child's talent, but here is overwhelming evidence to throw in your face. " The impulse is to brace oneself for the challenge prepare to read the most astonishing and brilliant verse ever written by a child...
...even to check how much of what Ford revealed was new. Nonetheless, contended Navasky, "What we did was a journalistic coup, and perfectly legal." Last week in Manhattan, however, U.S. District Court Judge Richard Owen, ruling on a suit brought by Ford's publishers, Harper & Row and the Reader's Digest Association, concluded that the Nation had violated federal copyright law. Said Owen: "The Nation took what was essentially the heart of the book...
First issues are often erratic; the new Vanity Fair is eccentric. It has not found its personality. A profusion of thick dividing lines and varying column widths fight to keep a reader's attention from straying to the words. The writing often reflects a lack of firm editing. Short reviews offer mostly glib opinion with scant analysis; the writers, moreover, apparently believe that if one metaphor per sentence is good, several are better, even if contradictory. A rambling rumination on "an American loss of nerve" by former New York Times Critic John Leonard has, aptly, a running leitmotiv...
Poet Judith Thurman, 36, labored to form her first effort at biography, the scrupulous and elegant Isak Dinesen: The Life of a Storyteller, along accepted Freudian lines. The author, so goes the convention, must interpret her subject psychologically for the reader. Thurman balked at the role of therapist. "Psychoanalyzing is absolutely useless," she recalls. "I was treating Dinesen as a case. I dropped that." Now she views her work as a love affair. "First it was the ecstasy, then total disillusionment, and finally came a deeper understanding and acceptance of the person." As sales and critiques have shown, the result...