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...advantage of that freedom knew they were making noble music. Swing boasted Duke Ellington, Earl Hines and Count Basie, the rarest of rarities--magnanimous men within a democracy. The same men were largely dependent on that democracy for their nobility. Within what other regime could the son of a coachman--the grandson of a slave!--become a duke...
...shaking hands shook less. And finally--family history, of course--learned to fly-fish properly. Taught, she insists, by a vision, possibly supernatural, of a naked man, fly rod in hand, drifting down a river on a raft. Sure. Anyhow, she is now able to cast a Royal Coachman so that the fly walks on water, "and the circle of fish shatters like beads in a kaleidoscope, bathing me in light...
...works hard at making The Angel of Darkness (Random House; $25.95) as impudent and beguiling as The Alienist and for the most part succeeds. The old gang is back: Miss Howard, the derringer-packing feminist detective; Moore, the boozy New York Times reporter; Cyrus, the piano-playing coachman; the redoubtable Isaacson detective brothers; and Stevie, the reformed street urchin, who later, as a grown man, narrates the adventure. (His urchin usage is not unfailingly convincing, as in "I remember reading in The Principles of Psychology, that doorstop of a book--what Professor William James had written...and which...
...impulse to explode in love or anger -- when we don't shout at a reckless motorist, or we keep quiet when we mean to proclaim our ardor. If Richard Kimble is a hero for our fugitive fantasy egos, Newland Archer is the patron saint of our everyday conscience, the coachman on our journey as the years dissolve into decades and the decades into decay...
...read Paradise Lost. The Emperor wants to buy a cow, but where shall we keep it?" The imperial party acquires a cow, but someone turns it loose. "February 4. The Emperor is in a very bad humor, and full of the cow incident. At dinner, the Emperor asks (his coachman) Archambault, 'Did you let the cow get away? If it is lost, you will pay for it, you blackguard!'. . . His Majesty, in a very bad humor, retires at 10:30, muttering, 'Moscow! Half a million men!' " After dinner a few days later, the Emperor remarks, "I should enjoy myself very...