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Dismissing the official Labor Party position, British member of Parliament C.A.R. Crosland strongly advocated his country's membership in the European Common Market during a speech before the International Relations Council here Thursday night...
...Crosland, president of the New Fabian Society, maintained that entering the Market would have a major psychological effect on Britain, "snapping it out of the feeling that nothing has happened in the last 30 years to affect British economic supremacy...
English-speaking readers now have a chance to see what the controversy was about, with the publication in Britain of Minou's First Poems, translated by Poet-Biographer Margaret Crosland (Hamish Hamilton, London). There is nothing in the 20 poems to suggest that they could not have been written by a very precocious child, and at the same time nothing to keep them from being judged as poetry rather than child's play. The verses are set in the serpentine typography that Minou believes necessary because "I reread better written like this." Typical was Tree that I Love...
...full critical grasp of Colette's work. Author Crosland is so devoted to her subject that the book is full of clumsy curtsies-as when Colette's perceptiveness as a movie critic is illustrated with the un fortunate statement: "She . . . knew that the name of Mickey Rooney would be heard again." Nonetheless, the book is a timely and handsome reminder of an extraordinary career...
Colette, says Biographer Margaret Crosland, "cannot be only partially accepted. One accepts everything or dismisses her completely." In fact, a case can be made that exactly the reverse is true. Colette was revered as a queen of French literature not because her kingdom was boundless, but because it was strictly limited and superbly governed. The subjects of Queen Colette have no souls, no morals, no politics, no intellects. Their aim is to devour the maximum of sensuous pleasure at the price of a pain that they often find most enjoyable, e.g., Chéri's heroine gets...