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...Wife of Bath. Any reminder of Rome offends his sensibilities. "I never want to see the place again as long as I live," he says. He has had his fill of flashbulbs in the dead of night, visiting "priests" with cameras under their cassocks, spoiled beans, stomach pumps, sleeping pills, Jewish singers, German orphans, and old friends who mail him headlines that say FUN?BURTON. But he has come away with an interesting souvenir?this riggish, Anglo-Egyptian dish of his, whom he has installed in a rooftop suite in London's Dorchester. He is not at all sure what...
...which is marked SELF-DESTRUCTION," says Mankiewicz, "and he will go right through that door." The outcome of the Taylor-Burton game must inevitably yield up a loser. If he should ever marry her, he will be the Oxford boy who became the fifth husband of the Wife of Bath. If she loses him, she loses her reputation as a fatal beauty, an all-consuming maneater, the Cleopatra of the 20th century...
...crowded world where privacy is increasingly difficult, more and more Americans are trying to exert some measure of control over who can summon them out of a hot bath, a sound sleep, or an absorbing conversation. The unlisted phone number, long a hallmark of distinction for the few, has become nearly as common as a credit card...
...actually be avoided. Ely Devons, a professor at the London School of Economics, said on the BBC Third Program: "I am worried that the value of academic leisure is being overlooked...In throwing out the baby of reaction and conservatism in our universities, let us not throw out the bath-water of a thousand years of British academic tradition...
...subject of the thousand-year-old bath water leads us finally to the social aspects of Oxford. Our Princeton writer had to admit sadly, that (whatever he might say) "Americans will continue to attend Oxford." Why? "To live and travel in Europe, to acquire prestige and social acumen, to work in a leisurely atmosphere." This position may be called the "Best Thing about England is Paris" view...