The Searching Light

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Martha Dodd, author of Through Embassy
Eyes and Sowing the Wind, and co-editor
with her brother of Ambassador Dodd's Diary,
is writing, in her new book, The Searching
Light, of a world she knows thoroughly. It is
the world of the American university, and her
novel portrays the inner conflicts, the desper-
ate struggles intellectuals experience as they
seek, lose or find their personal courage in a
time of crisis for which they are unprepared.
It is also a novel of everyday life of the men
and women who teach at Penfield University,
and it sympathetically portrays the effect of
the crisis on their family relationships.
The Searching Light is alive with numerous,
fascinatingly real characters. But Professor
John Minot, chairman of Penfield's English
Department, and his family are the central
figures in the personal and moral struggle at
the university. Minot, a man of innocence and
integrity, begins as a scholar who is primarily
interested in a book on Milton... Tovább

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Martha Dodd, author of Through Embassy
Eyes and Sowing the Wind, and co-editor
with her brother of Ambassador Dodd's Diary,
is writing, in her new book, The Searching
Light, of a world she knows thoroughly. It is
the world of the American university, and her
novel portrays the inner conflicts, the desper-
ate struggles intellectuals experience as they
seek, lose or find their personal courage in a
time of crisis for which they are unprepared.
It is also a novel of everyday life of the men
and women who teach at Penfield University,
and it sympathetically portrays the effect of
the crisis on their family relationships.
The Searching Light is alive with numerous,
fascinatingly real characters. But Professor
John Minot, chairman of Penfield's English
Department, and his family are the central
figures in the personal and moral struggle at
the university. Minot, a man of innocence and
integrity, begins as a scholar who is primarily
interested in a book on Milton which he is
writing, and the home in the country he and
his wife, Julia, have carefully built over the
years. His experiences in the loyalty oath con-
troversy comprise an engrossing story of one
man's growth and his understanding that free-
dom cannot be preserved by compromising
with the truth. Faced finally with the neces-
sity of choosing between his professional and
financial security and the beliefs he has held
throughout his life, John Minot has the cour-
age to stand by the truth.
The Searching Light is a novel of major
importance, not only for its general literary
excellence, its living characterizations, and
exciting narrative pace, but because it illumi-
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