RECANTATIONS & EQUIVOCATIONS THE COMPANY WE KEEP An Ethics of Fiction Wayne C. Booth California, $23.95, 480 pp. Martin Green The subtitle of this book, An Ethics of Fiction, refers us to the...
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negativity. She makes us aware again of flight, even if it amounts to little in the quire a way of seeing . . . in which life how dangerous the world is and of the end. In...
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Of lies, luxuries, & literature KATHERINE ANNE PORTER A LIFE Joan Givner Simon & Schuster, $15.95, 456 pp. Martin Green JOAN GIVNER'S excellent biography of Katherine Anne Porter raises a...
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Gandhi as military recruiter MARTIN GREEN RICHARD ATTENBOROUGH'S film about Gandhi shows us his career from outside, which makes it seem a triumphant progress, morally speaking. It begins with his...
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Books: FOLLOWING DeTOCQUEVILLE AMERICAN JOURNEY TRAVELING WITH TOCQUEVILLE IN SEARCH OF DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA Richard Reeves Simon and Schuster, $14.95, 352 pp. Martin Green THIS is a book I...
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GALLIPOLI, CHARIOTS OF FIRE, BRIDESHEAD REVISITED The cult of young manhood MARTIN GREEN Suddenly, it SEEMS, we are again accosted by powerful screen images of young men - of the feelings of...
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Books: SYNTHETIC MYTH THIS IS, we are told, the first of three science fiction narratives which Doris Lessing has written, under the general title of Canopus in Argos: Archives. They were...
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sensitivity, imagination and skill. Thomas Savage's I Heard bears on identity, in its social as well as its individual dimenMy Sister Call My Name (Little, Brown) is the story of...
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BOOKS TROMPING ON BABIES MARTIN GREEN On Moral Fier JOHN GARDNER Basic Books, $8.95 [214 pp.] There is always something atCractire, to me at least, in an attempt to relate moral values to...
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NEW BRITISH NOVELS Room at the Middle by MARTIN A NEW KIND of novel has been written in Britain during the last ten years. More than that--though the older writers, like Elizabeth Bowen, Angus...
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