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...find it surprising that you described Encounter [Sept. 2] without mentioning either of the cofounders, Irving Kristol and Stephen Spender. Mr. Spender has played a unique part in the literary life of our time. Horizon and Encounter, both of which he edited (the first with Cyril Connolly, the second with Irving Kristol and, after him, Melvin Lasky), have published much of the most interesting criticism and original writing in the last 30 years. The achievements and international standing of Encounter are scarcely conceivable without the influence of Stephen Spender's personal and literary authority...
...sugar mommies, raising cane by taking young boy friends. Latest to join in is Actress Jeanne Moreau, 38, who disappeared lately in the south of France with a 23-year-old lad named Theodore Roubanis, only to turn up in Paris last week with a more mature companion, Photographer Cyril Morange, 25. They are now blissfully ensconced in Jeanne's country house, and throughout France the middle-aged men are singing a variation on the old Piaf standard: Oui, je regrette quelquechose...
...TALE OF PETER RABBIT (Wonderland). This tops all other versions of the oft-told Beatrix Potter classic. Vivien Leigh tells it as if she had grown up at the foot of the old fir tree, and Lyricist David Croft and Musician Cyril Ornadel hit it off like Lerner & Loewe. It takes a hard heart not to melt at naughty Peter's wistful "Why do I do it?" Pity that this team has cut only two other Potter records: The Tale of Benjamin Bunny and The Tale of Jemima Puddleduck...
...MODERN MOVEMENT by Cyril Connolly. 148 pages. Atheneum...
...lively and influential British critic Cyril Connolly was recently commissioned by the London Sunday Times to compile and comment on a list of the hundred key books of modernism in literature. The result (see box) has all the marks of becoming a standard teaching aid in British and U.S. universities. Connolly's hundred also provides a formidable check list against which adult readers may test their knowledge of the literary forces that have helped shape the contemporary mind...