opportunities for free-lancing, have never been better. The prose and editorial acuity of a Sports Illustrated, ... its purely aesthetic function. The most powerful idea to come out of the 20th century Ameri­ can ... have been basically conservative, it is in the operation of our cultural and artistic life that our ...

perilous quest for the Grail, the archetype of that retreat which Leo Marx detects in so much American ... power and wealth. What is Caesar's has his image on it, but what Christ seeks has nothing ... feudal notions of caste, the knightly element of the Romance tradition was, as Henry Nash Smith has shown ...

that never appeared in the narrative is re­ placed by the corpse that Leo has finally made out of ... Affair that has nothing to do with the detective novel: each chapter is set off by a piece of dialogue ... mayor may not have died from the blow. Leo, in any case, is pursued by his own private conviction that ...

has become their mode, the roles they act out for one another. Her mother has been dead for a little ... that's offered to her. She had thought that this would be a rest period in her life-that it would be the ... that would bring closure to this stage of her life. She had been a psychology major, and is very fond ...