Word: countess
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When he was 40, Music Critic Carl Van Vechten was disposed to quit writing critical essays because at that age, he believed, his "intellectual arteries" had hardened. The affliction apparently did him no harm: after that he wrote seven novels about what made the Twenties roar (The Tattooed Countess, Nigger Heaven), twelve other books about music and himself, a definitive tome on cats (The Tiger in the House)-and all manner of critical essays, including some on photography, a durable interest in which versatile Van Vechten still excels. Still a chronic essayist, Van Vechten turned 80 last week...
...shakedown of a businessman by a brace of phony policemen. In jail, Sorlut soon began singing, gave the police a score of names of prominent Parisians to whom he had supplied young girls-politicians, manufacturers, department-store directors, a hairdresser, a fashionable tailor, an art curator, a restaurateur, a countess...
...Sign of Taurus, by William Fifield. This quirky novel revolves with less than planetary steadiness around the zodiacal notions of a Polish countess who is stranded in Mexico; fortunately the author's astrologic chopping is relieved by fine descriptions of Mexican sights and sounds...
...curious novel in which the astrological notions of an old Polish countess are mixed with exuberant descriptions of Mexico's sights and sounds; the result, happily, is a triumph of Mexico over metaphysics...
...Sign of Taurus, by William Fifield. A curious novel in which the astrological notions of an old Polish countess are mixed with exuberant descriptions of Mexico's sights and sounds; the result, happily, is a triumph of Mexico over metaphysics...