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Ages from now, cultivated men will no doubt read Trillin to know the tongue and cheek of coffeehouse New York, much as we read Addison and Steele to know the preoccupations of coffeehouse London. Meanwhile, on Barnett, on! Overcope and Frummer us to death...
...FIRST state of the print is a general statement. But in the second state Rembrandt refined the face, darkening the curve of the lips, and enunciating the cheek. One eye, large and black, opens in a tentative expression. The other one tightens in its scrutiny of the viewer. Rembrandt again blurred the features in a third state. Now the eyes are of equal size. And an arch scratched in at the top of the page brings de Jonghe forward. Finally Rembrandt cut deep shadows into the cape grabbing the focus away from the face. And the print seller becomes...
...growing U.S. concern over maintaining the ecological balance of the continent, the agitation of black nationalists for a separate but equal black culture in white America are all significant to Deloria. In some ways, too, uptight white institutions seem to be copying the Indian. With hardly any tongue in cheek, Deloria devotes a number of pages to a new form of white tribalism. What strikes his eye particularly is the clannishness and the need for reassurance implicit in the intertwined loyalties and duties that buttress giant U.S. corporations. But whether such things are a sign of healthy atavism...
...framing answers, Noel Perrin, professor of English at Dartmouth, takes as his point of departure Dr. Thomas Bowdler, who had a passion for chess and prison reform and an aversion to London smog, sick people, and all writing that, as he put it, "can raise a blush on the cheek of modesty." Certainly the Family Shakespeare (first edition 1807, second edition 1818) became the most popular expurgation in literary history. It gave Bowdler's name immortality as part of the language. But Perrin is up against not one man but a state of mind...
...collar and velvet ribbons -quite British and faintly Victorian. Lord Snowdon took the photograph of his wife sitting in the tall grass of what appeared to be a country meadow (actually part of their Kensington Palace gardens in downtown London), and there was a certain amount of tongue-in-cheek involved. Princess Margaret would soon be off to Tokyo to open British Week, a promotion-exposition aimed at persuading the Japanese to buy ?150 million worth of British goods next year...