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...hopelessly black." On a tip, he finds lodgings in the Chelsea flat of Roddy (Robin Phillips), the son of "decayed gentle folk." Roddy's own insecurities lead him to identify more and more with Mackenzie's black friends and to lure him into a dead-end love affair with a white girl (Judy Geeson...
Wildly improbable as these goings-on may be, Novelist Stephen Jones has a gift for sweet and savage satire reminiscent of that unwholesome trio: Nikolai Gogol, Nathanael West and Samuel Beckett. His characters parody themselves in obsessive dead-end conversations, groping their way circularly past each other through muddled clouds of private thought and uncertain motive. In this first novel, his descriptions of hotels, restaurants, odd corners of small towns and the seedy people who inhabit them, haunt the mind's eye. Yet Jones' real talent is for making the improbable seem necessary and the grotesque plausibly humdrum...
...Devil) and then to sleep. The common antinomy sets Schonberg against Stravinsky, coalescing all music into two schools in a priceless display of Manichaean passion. Schonberg is seen as the seminal prime mover, and Stravinsky [and to a lesser extent Berg and Bartok] are seen as creative but dead-end derelicts...
...multimillionaire by inheritance as well as by his own labors-his 42,507 shares of General Motors stock alone are worth $3,257,000-Knudsen regarded his failure to move to a higher salary bracket with comparative indifference. But he looked on a dead-end career with dread...
...Concentration on the backlog of employment needs in parks, streets, slums, countryside, schools, colleges, libraries and hospitals. The program should have as its first goal putting at least 1,000,000 of the unemployed into productive work at the earliest possible moment. > The program must provide meaningful jobs-not dead-end, make-work projects...