Word: companions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from Germany to Paris with his wife, internment in the early months of the war, escape and flight again across France until they are carried with the flood of human driftwood to a last beach in Lisbon. There Schwarz's cancer-ridden wife commits suicide. To the fatalistic companion who has listened to Schwarz talk through the long night in Lisbon, the tale later seems reminiscent of an insect embalmed in a flat piece of amber-"the death struggle of a gnat, preserved in a cage of golden tears, while its fellows had frozen or been eaten, and vanished...
...companion piece on the program, Gloria and Lily by Ida Picker, takes a slice of a very different kind of life--a miserable restaurant in New York. Miss Picker's knife has a ragged edge, and she has produced an uneven piece...
...first few years, it looked as though they had been right. Sihanouk became an inveterate sampot-chaser, thereby entangling himself in a web of domestic complexities. Royal records are kept secret, but he has apparently been married six times, sired 14 children. His current favorite and constant companion: Monique, the lovely half-Italian, half-Cambodian beauty-contest winner whom Sihanouk met when he awarded her a pageant prize in 1951.* Five of his sons are studying abroad: two in France, one in Prague, one in Moscow, and one in Peking. The Prince, true to his neutralism, says he is ready...
...STONE AND THE KNIGHTS COMPANION by V. S. Naipaul. 159 pages. Macmillan...
...firm a scheme for keeping in touch with retired employees, sending the more active ones to visit the bedridden with small gifts and words of cheer. He sees it simply as "protection for the old." But the company sees it as grand public relations and names it the "Knights Companion" scheme, putting Mr. Stone in charge...