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...Lisbon is snoring. Patients, assuming that a man of his means must either be a very expensive doctor or a very bad one, stay away in droves. His fine friends, however, arrive by the dozen to chatter about literature, politics, the latest scandal; to lure him off to a café, the opera, a dinner party, an assignation. Carlos resists, but not very vigorously. In a few months, he finds himself living the life of a Latin playboy and wondering a bit anxiously if anything serious will ever happen...
What made it go was Billingsley's basic formula: exclusiveness and effusiveness. He became a kind of unacknowledged dictator of café society, and the mass of its members, basically insecure, welcomed the leadership and authority. For they knew that if they were admitted into the upper sanctuary, the Cub Room, they were established...
...actor, Germi creditably plays Andrea-a rough-handed father, a celebrated drinker and singer of songs at his favorite café, and a hell of an engineer. But at 50, Andrea's self-centered world begins to go off the track. His grown son is a layabout who seems more interested in petty rackets than honest work. His daughter (Sylva Koscina), already embittered at having been forced to marry the store clerk who seduced her, has a stillborn child. While Andrea is brooding about that misfortune his train runs down a suicide. Afterward, the engineer takes a few drinks...
Voltaire thus exemplifies, say the Durants, the "conflict between religion and science-plus-philosophy which became a living drama in the 18th century, and which has resulted in the secret secularism of our times." The drama as told by them ranges through the bustling courts and cafés of some half a dozen nations, is crowded with a cast of hundreds, from Voltaire's royal on-and-off admirer, Frederick the Great of Prussia, to Lord Chesterfield, writing elegant letters on morals to his bastard...
...saying, Editor-Publisher Igor Cassini, 50, bored and restless ever since 1964 when he was fined $10,000 as an unregistered agent for Dominican Dictator Rafael Trujillo, launched his new magazine Status. It had pieces by Lucius Beebe and Cleveland Amory, who go all the way back to Café Society, and some instructions on giving yourself the "Go-Go-ciety look" ("float about carefree in tiny doll dresses") or the "soignée Society presence" ("three sets of fake lashes, two above, one below...