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Sail Away (by Noël Coward) is carbon-copy Coward. All it needs is a carbon-copy audience from the dated musical comedies of the '20s and '30s. Sample dialogue: Englishman, in tweeds and monocle: "I've just found a cockroach in my bath." Steward: "I trust it was a British cockroach...
...this reader, his puerile exegeses of such systems of theology, philosophy, epistemology and, for that matter, bath-taking, as he has brought under the batteries of his irredeemably third-class mind bring much the same kind of pain as does unexpectedly bending back a fingernail below the quick...
...with no more social accomplishments than scratching and giggling. The Y.W.C.A. instructors patiently help them through the tangles of Western underwear, show them how to manipulate knives and forks instead of dipping their hands into their food. One instructor climbs into a bathtub and demonstrates how to take a bath. Students find the toilet the most fascinating of all Western gadgets, happily flush it repeatedly...
...ring bathrobe and droopy trunks, which "made him look like a guy who just got out of a hotel fire in time." When pint-sized Jerry Barber won the P.G.A. golf tournament, Murray suggested that Barber was "the only guy who ever won that trophy who could take a bath...
Despite opposition fears that the Trujillos will never leave power without a blood bath ("It's only a matter of time before they slice us up like hot dogs," said one U.C.N. leader last week), there are many observers who feel that things could be worse in the Dominican Republic. The country has not yet degenerated into civil war or Communism. There are also some small signs that Ramfis Trujillo may be finding his father's mantle a little heavy. In an hour-long interview with a New York Times correspondent last week, Ramfis pleaded for a resumption...