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...That she took no pleasure in sex we know from other sources, including Joseph P. Lash's first volume. Elliott treats this as a great revelation and reminds readers about it perhaps a dozen times in his small book. Father, on the other hand, matured into a lusty chap whose interest and prowess were undiminished even by the aftereffects of polio. For the sake of skeptics, Elliott cites a medical report and even translates the Latin...
Tiger and Fox have been called everything from fascist to sexist to simply "unpersuasive" They are not suprised, "You don't go up to someone who has taught cultural relativism for 40 years and say, 'Sorry, old chap, but you're wrong,' and expect to be loved," says Fox philosophically. He believes that they are being criticized primarily on political grounds. The critics "think we should be striving for the good and the right and the true...
...hadn't done anything to anybody," said one fisherman in Hamilton. It is the view among Bermudians, both black and white, that Sir Richard was pleasant, outgoing and informal. "The shooting could not have been personal," said M.P. William M. Cox of the United Bermuda Party. "That chap was a Christian gentleman...
...Aquarius gets an extraordinary first edition, all about the trials of this manly little chap, just 16 years old, who supports his careworn mother and stands up to a stepfather of "intemperate habits," not to mention an assortment of other bullies. Young Frank finally rescues a rich man's child from kidnapers, thus earning himself the gratitude of that good old deus ex machina known as the Benefactor, without whom no Alger novel is complete. But before everybody rolls over in another fit of giggles at the naive old 19th century, certain facts should be noted...
...discussion of the printed program. Be fore long, the characters are asking each other, and the audience, what the hell they're doing there. A beer-swilling football fan issues periodic razzberries from the balcony, while from a front-row seat in the stalls an exasperated Establishment chap complains loudly about the dearth of any sense or decent language from the stage...