A critical consensus has appeared that Mary McCarthy will be remembered principally as an essayist rather than as a novelist.

一个批判性的共识已经出现，即玛丽·麦卡锡将作为散文家而不是小说家被人们记住。

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The excursion had in his eyes been a monstrous gaffe , a breach of sensibility and good taste&b{Mary McCarthy.

那次谈话中的离题在他看来太出丑了，简直就是失去理智后的胡言乱语，毫无高尚趣味可言（玛丽麦卡锡）

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She had eventually learnt of them from the novels of Mary McCarthy who, like Miss Fletcher, had been a student at Vassar.

ECONOMIST: Lucille Fletcher

Auden, Elizabeth Hardwick, Mary McCarthy, Norman Mailer, Gore Vidal and Robert Penn Warren, pointed towards what was to come: a continuous stream of essays, usually discussing a book or books, and usually written by someone recognised as a writer, scholar or thinker of distinction.

ECONOMIST: Barbara Epstein, editor, died on June 16th, aged 77