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Jeeves, another gin stengah. A treasure, Jeeves is. Been with the club since the flood. Where was I? Ah, yes. Books. Haven't read but one since Oxbridge. Burke's Peerage. Breeders' guide to British nobility. Smashing heraldry: gules argent, lions rampant, bars sinister, all that drill. Snob's bible, they call it-the envious ones. For those of us who can trace our lineage back to Ethelred the Unready, it's-well, it's sort of a-er -bible. Meaning no disrespect, padre. Since the Empire's gone to the demnition bowwows...
...touch of England in the colonies? Ah, very good. Henley-on-the-Charles? Pip pip. A return to the grande old days of rowing. Well, amid the flowers, flowing garden dresses, boaters and blazers buzzing around Newell Boathouse today the Radcliffe crew will shove off in defense of its Greater Boston Championship. The 'Cliffe will be facing shells from B.U., MIT and Wellesley...
They don't slip down the gullet like meringue, but Potemkin and The Last Laugh are two of the Greatest Movies Ever Made, the former maybe The Greatest. Ah yes, the dopes will walk by them, on their way to see Georgina Spelvin wrassle snakes, but as far as film goes you can't beat these. When Potemkin dropped itself on the world in 1925, it was a revolution--it changed the art of making motion pictures and watching them. It was shocking in form and substance, nobody had created anything quite like it before, and it remains probably...
...purpose beyond merely mocking the life of an L.A. hairdresser, as he lets us know at the outset with the flashing of "Election Day" on the dark screen, and as he reminds us every time we see the face that is becoming the most comic mug since Tom Dewey. Ah, yes, we think, as we watch George's tumescence, very similar to the swelling of CREEP's campaign funds. A pair of legs spreading apart, we realize, is quite analogous to the hairy palm of a politician opening up to receive a bribe. As we watch George lose Jackie...
...Santiago for a scientific meeting at the University in the Spring of 1971. At that time friends took me to meet President Allende. I said to him "You are a physician." "Yes,"--he replied. "Like Juan Negrin." I said--speaking of the ill-fated President of the Spanish Republic. "Ah!" said Allende. "I hope that this time it will end better...