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Sarah's father was everybody's friend, never missed a party, played a lively jazz guitar, and drank. Her mother was dark, beautiful, and "seemed to live as if she had a splinter of ice in her heart." Novelist Barrett has a fine ear for the edged remarks that are designed ostensibly to pass over the head of a child but really aimed as by-blows in the battle for the child's fealty. From father (comforting his daughter after a nightmare): "Your mother doesn't have nightmares when she's asleep, only when...
Have you heard about the cow who drank ink and mooed indigo...
SARATOGA by George Waller. 392 pages. Prentice-Hall. $12.95. In the early days, the Iroquois drank the health-giving waters of the Saratoga spa in Upper New York state. Today, the beneficial tonic is supplied in summer by the new Saratoga Performing Arts Center and the traditional race meeting. In the interim, the place was the nation's gaudiest resort, alive with scandals, gambling and frivolity. This book recaptures all of the" old magnificence...
...Vietnamese song about exile. It was hardly an apt description of the scene in Paris last week when South Vietnamese expatriates celebrated Viet Nam's National Day at the Maison de I'Amerique Latine. Consul General Nguyen Huu Tan, dressed in tails, greeted the guests, who drank bottle after bottle of cold champagne-Moet et Chandon 1949, Brut Imperial -the best. Along the Left Bank, the North Vietnamese were throwing their own ball at the headquarters of their diplomatic delegation. Not a bad life for an exile, whatever his politics...
...Young Democrats tried living it up for a few hours. They drank beer, blew horns, and batted balloons around the Winthrop House junior common room. But by 10 p.m. their candidate, Edward J. McCormack, was on television saying how "it isn't easy to lose," and the horns stopped tooting...