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...AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A RUNAWAY SLAVE by Esteban Monfejo. Edited by Miguel Barnet. 223 pages. Pantheon...
...rarely contribute but wish they did. There is Felix Ottensteen, burly book reviewer for a Yiddish daily, who refers to himself as der Alte and browbeats his sullen son because he is still a student at 27 ("The way Catherine the Great took lovers, he takes courses"). There is Barnet Weiner, a fading poet-critic who remembers peevishly the time when his picture appeared on the dust jacket of New Critics, 1944. There is Holly Levine, who teaches creative writing but keeps a copy of Playboy hidden under the Kenyan Reviews. Composing a review: "He hissed softly, Trilling . . . Leavis . . . Ransom...
...Will Barnet...
...smaller roles, I can find only praise for Mr. David Adam, a profound and sonorous Private Willis; for Mr. Barnet Skolnick, a portly Strephon, made up (for some reason) to look like Franz Joseph Haydn; for Miss Kay Churchill, a veritable Little Mary Sunshine of a Phyllis; and for Miss Sarita Matney, Iolanthe herself, who is a most pleasant and motherly fairy...
...middle 30's, Prior has already had a varied career. He studied several languages in secondary school, went on to chemistry, then to classical Greek and psychology, and eventually the ministry of the Church of England. He was curate first in Barnet, a London working class district and later in a South England middle class area, Eastbourne. When he next went as vicar to St. Paul's Church, Onslow Square, London, he at first found only 25 people in the parish and faced demolition of the church; now after seven years 500 pack the services each Sunday. 90 per cent...