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...COUNTRY COUSIN by Louis Auchincloss Houghton Mifflin; 239pages...
...device," says one of Vance's State Department colleagues, in reference to a general complaint that Vance has no grand design for a future world order. "He thinks it tends to distort reality." Explains another associate: "He is so controlled, he is right out of a Louis Auchincloss novel. I keep wondering where he goes to do his primal scream...
...lady needed the money, and the offer of $825,000 wasn't bad. But Janet Auchincloss, Jacqueline Onassis' mother, was especially impressed with the plans of Edward Sughrue, an attorney from Whitinsville, Mass., and eight business partners to turn the family estate in Newport, R.I., into a Kennedy museum. After all, the greatest days at Hammersmith Farm were when the Honey Fitz tied up at the dock or the presidential helicopter settled on the lawns. An Irishman who cast his first vote ever for J.F.K., Sughrue plans to open the house to tourists next spring and charge admission...
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...Auchincloss's true dramatic moments are in exchanges of dialogue that he expertly stages to define his characers. It is this quality of closet theater that makes his work consistently entertaining-even when his sphere of wealth and privilege may seem hopelessly remote to most readers. Irving Stein provides the best example of this in the current novel. Urged to remember his sons when bequeathing his entire art collection to Elesina, he relents with a few to kens: "Well, suppose I leave them each a painting?...To Lionel the Holbein of Mary Tudor. To Peter the Botticelli To David...