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...author of the first Mishima biography, was the London Times's Tokyo bureau chief during the late '60s. He knew the novelist casually during the last years of his life, and his book is humane, intelligent and, for the moment, probably as close as a Western reader is likely to get to the subject. Scott-Stokes never sensationalizes -Mishima did that for himself-but in addition to his literate examination of the man's work, he surmises that the famous death scene was part of a double love-suicide, a shinju, involving Mishima and Masakatsu Morita...
...Dornbusch (Sarah Lawrence, "rich, pretty, smart, sexy, adoring") on the way to his perfect losing cause. Maureen Johnson is a twice-divorced ex-barmaid out of Elmira, N.Y., afflicted by artiness, more than a touch of paranoia and a very odd walk. Roth often seems as baffled as the reader as to why Tarnopol should marry this "cornball Clytemnestra" for whom he feels no affection or even lust. Does Maureen represent the muse of disorder, the Dionysian element every artist suspects he needs? Or is she a case of purest masochism-the general contention of Dr. Spielvogel, Tarnopol...
...physics and the creative process of a bomb maker for an audience that does not understand mathematics, moreover, is a bit like writing music criticism for the deaf. McPhee manages very well, using the life and thought of Theoretical Physicist Ted Taylor as a way into the subject. The reader, balancing his head carefully so that the neutrons won't spill out, is led an enormous distance, to the point where a good many of Taylor's calculations seem understandable...
...doctor's report on the physical capacity of women to compete with men (highly favorable, except in contact sports). The first run is a healthy 325,000 copies, and Publisher King hopes that the monthly will attract men as well as women. She already has one male reader: to pay off a bet he lost after his match with King last September, Bobby Riggs signed on as a charter subscriber...
Here her alliteration works, subtly drawing the passage together without bombarding the reader with useless repetition. The imagery is strong and suggestive, but not full of the mixed metaphor which detracts in so many of her other pieces. She gives a credible child's insight into an adult world. Spivack writes best when she refrains from being overtly cosmic...