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...contrast to the accuracy and wisdom of Bate's book stands Aileen Ward's John Keats: The Making of a Poet. Miss Ward's book was published barely a week before Bate's and, surprisingly, neither author was aware of the other's project. Not so surprising actually, since one biography is a masterful, magnificent study, and the other is an over-written attempt at literary psychoanalysis...
...Manhattan there is hardly any real gossip in the daily flow of words from golf-playing Igor ("Cholly Knickerbocker") Cassini, in the Journal American, or good-natured Joseph X. Dever in the World-Telegram, or bland Nancy Randolph in the Daily News, or even the entertainingly abrasive "Suzy" (Aileen Mehle) in the Mirror. The fascinating intelligence that Mercedes de Footwork had lunch at the Purple Tulip is good for a line any time. No one may have heard of either Mercedes or the Tulip, but after both have been mentioned a dozen times and absorbed with faithful mindlessness...
...AILEEN CONNOLLY...
...company headed by Aileen Passloff, one of the more highly praised avant-garde dancers, performed works that at times seemed closer to calisthenics than choreography. In At Home, the dancers brought out an ironing board and chairs, spent much of their time exuberantly thumping the floor with their heels to the taped ringing of bells, rubbing of balloons, and the off-key screech of misplayed violins. In Arena, the dancers did push-ups while an accompanist whistled Yankee Doodle. Appropriately, the series ended with a piece called Cypher, done, to the sound (electronically altered) of an audience coughing during...
...Earl of Shrewsbury, dining afterward with his well-gowned mistress Aileen Mortlock, declared: "I am definitely not going back to my wife, but I'm afraid she will never divorce me." The countess, dining at a big table with a place set for the earl's return (as it has been ever since he walked out of Ingestre Hall last September), said: "As a Christian, I believe I am pledged to him for life...