Emptying the desk drawers THE END OF THE WORLD NEWS Anthony Burgess McGraw-Hill, $15.95, 389 pp. Bruce Cook ANTHONY BURGESS, who once wrote a flattering review of a novel he had published under a...
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Rich, rising anthems of faith GOSPEL HYMNS AND SOCIAL RELIGION Sandra S. Sizer Temple, $15, 222 pp. THE WELL-TEMPERED LYRE George W. Ewing Southern Methodist, $15, 298 pp. Bruce Cook NOT SO...
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JAGGER AND THE STONES BRUCE COOK 'Music is not the point of it all' IT IS not enough, and never has been, to write about the Rolling Stones as though they were just a musical group. They are...
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GHOST WRITING BRUCE COOK The haunting side of the best-seller list and other ghostly oddities As hanging for the condemned man, nothing concen-trates a writer's mind quite so wonderfully as the...
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too depressing for me. I do not believe that freedom is already so illusory that we may as well do away with any semblance of it except for the possibility of attending a seance when you want...
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B nan Moore's persistent and growing reputation as a novelist seems, in in an odd way, due to the kind of BRIAN MOORE: writer he isn't, rather than the kind he PRIVATE...
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At last we have a chance to test the •**¦ myth. The Ail-American Boy, a first film by Charles Eastman which features Jon Voight in the title role, finally opened in New York to—as...
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Holy Man: Father Damien of Molokai GAVAN DAWS Harper & Row, $8.95 A Man for Note JOHN BEEVERS Doubleday, $5.95 MICHAEL F. McCAULEY There may very possibly be an incipient cult to Damien...
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The Lady Was m Bisfiep JOAN MORRIS Macmillan, $6.95 DORIS GRVMBACH Joan Morris is an historian and a scholar, and her book is scholarly, tightly packed with fact after fact, and historically...
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BOOKS Critics' Choices lor Christmas BRUCE COOK If 1972 was anything it was election year—or didn't you notice? And because there will be books and books about it next year, perhaps you...
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his job back if he wants it. The injustice that sent him to you will probably be drafted, and, beyond that, probably the picket line cannot be resolved by denying justice in continue your...
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In the electioneering for Proposition 14, a clever--and it proved to be highly effective---campaign was waged to convince the individual that the Rumford Act gives a bureaucratic agency the...
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through the novelist's power of creation that we can get our best glimpse of what lies behind and under the reverbertory power of facts." The imagination thus understood is the instrument of...
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Spy stories as literature COLD WAR FICTION BRUCE COOK As Leslie Fiedler and other critics have remarked, the Cold War has not proved a very profitable subject for serious fiction. To those who...
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