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Biology says that the longer the nurturing period, the higher the species of animal. The quirks in that idea appeal to British-born Novelist Gavin Lambert. He first explored protracted puberty among starlets in Inside Daisy Clover, a barbed novel that Hollywood made into a mushy movie. Now Lambert satirizes the upper-class British male, alternately pampered and scourged in nursery and public school. His hero, Sir Norman Lightwood, is the invincible innocent, a descendant of Paul Pennyfeather who goes unarmed in a world of "pimps and pitiless roughnecks...
...brick U.S. Pavilion, which resembles a miniature Monticello, nearly wound up empty. For the first time, the Smithsonian Institution's National Collection of Fine Arts was charged with the job of filling it. The Smithsonian, in turn, asked the British-born curator of New York's Guggenheim Museum, Lawrence Alloway, 39, to select what was finest in American...
...psychiatric hopes for LSD were followed by the spiritual ones. British-born Orientalist Alan Watts, who spent six years as an Episcopal priest, says flatly that "LSD is quite emphatically a new religion. The God-is-dead thing is not unconnected. The standard brands have not been delivering the goods. This is technological mysticism...
Died. Herbert Marshall, 75, British-born cinemactor, who lost his right leg in World War I, learned to walk with only the barest limp on an artificial limb, then emigrated to the U.S. and became the very model of a Hollywood Briton in all the stereotypes from charming rake (Trouble in Paradise) to losing-but-noble lover (Accent on Youth); apparently of a heart attack; in Beverly Hills, Calif...
...Coincidence. It was the distribution of Burkitt's lymphoma that first implicated a virus as its possible cause. Named for British-born Surgeon Denis P. Burkitt, 53, who first described its prevalence and unusual distribution, it attacks children regardless of race, in high-rainfall, equatorial areas of low altitude. The geography of the disease is strikingly similar to that of yellow fever. And yellow fever has long been recognized as a viral infection carried by a mosquito...