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...Rohmer (pen name for Arthur Sarsfield Ward), about 76, creator of 20th century English fiction's most durable villain: Fu Manchu; after long illness ; in London. Modeled on a mysterious Chinese Rohmer spotted one night in 1913 in the Limehouse fog, wily, sinister Fu Manchu outwitted his Anglo-Saxon pursuers in and out of 13 books and the most exotic parts of the world, assembled a memorable team of Oriental ogres to dispose of his victims, lured such connoisseurs of evil as Boris Karloff and Warner (Charlie Chan) Oland to portray him on screen, almost died horribly at times...
...parents moved from an unfashionable cemetery to a posher last resting place. The trouble is that too much of what Author Packard observes is old hat, such as the upper-class preference for old hats over flashy new ones. He over-generalizes. One dubious example: Americans of Anglo-Saxon ancestry like to point to their past by living in Early American, white clapboard houses, while Jews prefer modern architecture, since no one would credit them with an Early American ancestry anyway. And, searching for meanings, he wildly overinterprets. Example: American women do not like to ride motorcycles because, perched...
Lawrence wrote Lady Chatterley three times. By the time he was satisfied, the novel contained enough explicit love scenes and enough short Anglo-Saxon words to sate the appetite of the keenest pornographer. But is it pornography? The answer of literary people is no. Lawrence, a fretful neurotic always at war within himself, was a serious writer. But there is another question: Is Lady Chatterley dull and tiresome? This time the answer must...
...R.O.T.C. battalion, won four out of 20 prizes in the Atlantic's collegiate short-story writing contest, played a top-chop game of Rugby, and kayoed an opponent in a Golden Gloves elimination fight before getting iced himself. At Oxford, Kris immersed himself in the dark waters of Anglo-Saxon, spent a few ergs of his seemingly inexhaustible reserve of energy playing Rugger for Merton, winning his blue at boxing (although a Cambridge tiger defeated him recently), and writing the first 50 pages of a novel-"a sort of complicated thing, in which I look at the same episode...
...have great respect for the field of English, perhaps less so for the department. I threatened to resign from the university and go to Oxford when they reneged on permission to write a thesis." He changed his mind about doing honors but wrote a thesis anyway on Anglo-Saxon poetry, a taste he acquired at Oxford, where such matters are encouraged to the point of compulsion...