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...self-analysis of considerable pathos. This makes for a jarring discrepancy of mood without any compensating illumination of meaning. Act I is fun and naughty games. In it, Philip ends up in bed with a Venus's-fly-trap of a girl. His fiancée Celia (Jane Asher) pairs up with a cynical aphorist out of early Aldous Huxley. This hedonist with a literate leer acquires luxuriant narcissistic finesse from the performance of Victor Spinetti...
...MEMOIRS OF CHIEF RED FOX edited by Cash Asher. 208 pages. McGraw-Hill...
...book owes a heavy debt to Editor Asher, who reorganized the chief's verbal and written memories. Yet starting with Red Fox's recollection of learning as a child "to make a fishhook from the rib of a field mouse," the reader will rarely be aware of any white man's intruding hand. "I am not sentimental," says Red Fox, "but memories haunt me as I review scenes from the days before I was old enough to understand that all Indian things would pass away...
...Right. Coming to court daily has become a way of life for most of the courtroom buffs. "Many of the men are widowers," says Richter. "They seek companionship here." "The main thing," adds Morris Asher, 73, a former machine operator, "is that you get up in the morning and have a place to go. If a fellow we know doesn't show up, then we get worried." Some buffs achieve the ultimate: defense attorneys and prosecutors actually seek their opinion, not on legal strategy, but on the reactions to be expected from judges and juries. According to Salvadore Pampinella...
...humor of Livingston's first LP, especially the songs Carolina Day and Sit on Back. Alex's LP, released last week, divulges a freewheeling, lowdown style of music that lies somewhere between Hee Haw and New Orleans' Jazz Preservation Hall. Kate's album debut, Sister Kate, produced by Peter Asher and due for release next month, would be an accomplishment for a blues singer with years of experience. As it is, her weary lag and sag in Sweet Honesty and her joyful hymning of Home Again (by Carole King) are nothing short of astonishing in a singer just setting...