THE first words of Latin most of us learned when young were "Amo, amas, amat." But what those words mean in either an ancient or a modern tongue has never been certain. Leaving aside love of God, country, beauty, relatives and filet mignon, it is still pl...View free preview
There may be a few naive souls around who honestly believe that the siege for tickets to last night's reception at the Museum of Modern Art was due solely to a love of art....View free preview
ANN BOROWIK shines brightly among the new young American novelists of the macabre and the absurd. Let others sweat to overthrow moral standards. She only wants to enjoy the revolution....View free preview
INFIDELITY is to modern fiction what courtly love was to the 16th-century sonnet: a rhetorical convenience, an excuse for the imagination....View free preview
MOSCOW, June 22 Under the leadership of Yuri Grigorovich, Moscow's Bolshoi Ballet is now undertaking its perilous journey into what we in the Western dance world think of as the 20th century. It will be a journey not without its pitfalls, and some of thos...View free preview
ON its face, this new novel by Waldo Frank is "a modern love story," as its title page protests; and indeed, if you found it in a popular magazine, signed by an unfamiliar name, you could read it with a good deal of casual pleasure....View free preview
IN writing about "modern love," novelists have regu larly taken their cue from Meredith. No villain need be; passions spin the plot, and we are betrayed by what is false within. Richard Underwood's novel about an international romance explores such a love...View free preview
SOMETHING has come over the American love story. It seems to have grown up. No longer does it find its chief concern in the billings and cooings of tepid adolescents. No longer does it bother with the timid heart flutterings of the New England school-marm...View free preview
AS the nation's institutions of higher learning begin their academic year, some thousands of sociologists and professors of family life are taking up again their crusade against an insidious and malign philosophy to which youth is perennially attracted --...View free preview
Robin Stone is the love machine. My goodness yes. Robin Stone, who drinks his vodka straight, who is positively insatiable in the kip, who runs the largest television network in the country, and who is not only a magnificent sadist but a weak, vulnerable ...View free preview