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...SAINT VENUS by Anthony Burgess. 138 pages. Norton...
...Anthony Burgess, a writer of great wit and erudition, once dared to put the goddess of love in a soggy English garden and between damp English sheets. Only a writer as talented as Burgess could have succeeded in such an unpromising enterprise...
Publishing this little work (or opusculum, as Burgess calls it) 20 years after he wrote it and six years after it came out in England, the author also issues a fair warning. The Eve of Saint Venus, he says, "depends for its effect largely on an understanding of the insular and conservative English character, especially as manifested in a silly, ingrown, mainly nonexistent rural aristocracy...
Last January, Massachusetts became the first Episcopal diocese to be headed by a black bishop, the Right Rev. John M. Burgess. And 800,000 black Roman Catholics (only 1.7% of the nation's Catholics) have successfully won a national secretariat, which, among other demands, will seek activities to augment the sparse number of black priests...
...trip to Memphis in 1905. Screenwriters Irving Ravetch and Harriet Frank Jr., having done previous Faulkner adaptations in The Long Hot Summer and The Sound and the Fury, by this time know the Yoknapatawpha territory more than passing well. Their sharp and reverent screenplay, featuring a felicitous narration by Burgess Meredith, helps make The Reivers one of the year's most pleasant movie experiences...