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...Nothing of substance will be accomplished in this protocol visit to General de Gaulle." said New York Post Paris Correspondent Joseph Barry. But Barry found a bitter solace in his gloom: "It had to be done, and if it's worth doing at all, as G. K. Chesterton once put it, it's worth doing badly. Since nothing will be achieved, it's as well there will be no illusions at the start...
...What a remarkable place Cambridge is," says Mrs. Chesterton Undergrowth, the wife of a prominent Harvard dean. That she says it in bed to the lesbian heroine of The Section Man indicates the tone and intention of the novel. The hero is the homosexual husband of the heroine, and three pages after Mrs. Undergrowth's seduction, he finds himself in bed with Mr. Undergrowth. That should indicate that the intention is carried...
Christ as Saviour seems to have frightened Murry and he found the idea of physical resurrection "horribly shocking," though he admits that G. K. Chesterton once told him "that I have no right to limit my conception of reality and of God to that which does not shock me." Christ's last terrible cry on the cross ("My God. my God, why hast thou forsaken me?") strikes Murry as "the agony of foreboding that the God in whom he had believed and trusted did not exist, after all. God was beyond even his understanding. He had taken the risk...
...among the British as a form of "upper-class folk art," but its great age was the late Victorian period (C. S. Calverley, Lear and J. K. Stephen), based on a common Oxbridge education. In this century Macdonald loyally finds U.S. parodists better than Britain's best (Belloc, Chesterton, Beerbohm, Connolly notwithstanding), and the best of these in The New Yorker school (E. B. White, Wolcott Gibbs, Peter De Vries). The reason: that magazine, with its "peculiar combination of sophistication and provinciality," provides the necessary "compact cultural group." "The old lady from Dubuque," it seems, now digs Jack Kerouac...
Plans for the tour, which are as yet incomplete, call for a performance at Washington College in Chesterton, Md.; a probable stop in Wilmington, Del; and concerts at Swarthmore College and the Harvard Club of New York City, as well as the Washington performance...