Word: cousin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fallen, Arch. Deftly and with good humor, the author describes four representative adventures; they show "Isherwood" through the years discarding one pose after another, like a man trying on dressing gowns. At 23, the hero is a rather insensitive Sensitive Young Author. Invited to visit a "cousin" named Lancaster who is a shipping executive in Hamburg, the young man has a perfectly hideous time. His notion of himself as Jack the Philistine Killer falls comically to pieces when he finds himself fascinated by Lancaster's boundless, vulgar energy...
...sacraments of the Church of England, from which her conscience had kept her during her long adultery. Though she asked, and expected, that the letters be destroyed, here they all are, from 1950 to 1952 (another volume is to come), edited and with an introduction by her third cousin, Constance Babington-Smith. Numerous notable literary lights were scandalized when Letters to a Friend was published in England last October. Said Author Rebecca West: "It made me want to vomit." But according to Editor Babington-Smith, Father Johnson and Rose Macaulay's spinster sister, Jean, felt that the letters might...
...Highland terrier breed of an upsurge in popularity, though that can be a questionable blessing. "Popularity is a curse," says Handler Larry Carswell, a spaniel specialist. "People want to be able to say, I got one like the one that won at . . .' or 'This is a distant cousin of the one who won at . . .' There's indiscriminate breeding right away. Pretty soon you can buy one at Macy's." But Ch. Elfinbrook Simon is not one to put on the dog. When Simon was singled out as the year's best. Owner Barbara Worcester...
When Painter Arshile Gorky died in 1948, the New York Times gave the story a mere 15 lines-and perhaps it would not have run even that much had it not believed, mistakenly, that the artist was "a first cousin of Maxim Gorky, the writer." Hindsight proves that the press and public sadly wronged Arshile Gorky. As two new shows in Manhattan demonstrate, he was one of the significant U.S. painters of this century...
...first, the Von Kessens seem to Augustine merely odd. They shoot foxes, and twin children are punished by being dog-chained to the castle wall. Uncle Otto broods about the defeat of the German army and the insolence of the Red militiamen roaming the Ruhr. His young cousin Franz speculates on the nature of politics and violence with a mystical intensity that shocks the rationalistic Englishman. There is a pet fox in the attic. Also in the attic, though Augustine does not know it, is a young, half-crazed fanatic sought by the police as a member of a proto...