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...with me when I die, what pitiful or perishable form will the world lose?" Borges wonders, recalling childhood friends and memories. "The voice of Macedonio Fernández? The image of a roan horse on the vacant lot at Serrano and Charcas? A bar of sulphur in the drawer of a mahogany desk...
Time was, when you could pull out drawer 1336 in the Widener Library public catalogue and count on getting the librarian's tranche de vie between EBNETH and ECHAVELAR. No more. So rapid has the growth of knowledge been, that now an even larger scoop of learning is within that slender tray betrayed...
...crowded hole in Montparnasse called New Jimmy's, where Novelist Francoise Sagan and cinema's Roger Vadim, Jacques Charrier and Jane Fonda turn up to Hully Gully. London's discotheques range from the superexclusive Annabel's in Berkeley Square, where Guardsmen, debutantes and top-drawer jet-setters can order an excellent full-course dinner as late as 3 a.m., to the come-one-come-all Crazy Elephant in Jermyn Street, where the beat is blue, the mood frenetic, and the Shake is the thing...
...noticed that the police escort had drawn guns on the other dozen or so prisoners and everyone seemed quite nervous). All this time the deputy had kept up a high pitch shout of "Yassuh, you sonovabitch! Yassuh, you black bastard! Say YASSUH!" Now he reached into his desk drawer and I perceived that pronouncing two syllables could save me a pistol whipping. The hell with it, I thought--"Yes sir." He stood there breathing heavily and looking down for a good minute... "Get away from here...
Although Marco is not top-drawer O'Neill, even the B-plus work of our greatest American dramatist merits full attention. Finished in 1925 and originally produced in 1928, the play has until now been revived only once, I believe-by the Harvard Dramatic Club at Sanders Theatre in 1954. It was an inspired choice on the part of Lincoln Center to offer this neglected treasure as a companion to Arthur Miller's new play, which it officially joined in repertory last night. (My remarks, it should be cautioned, are based on a viewing five days before the formal opening...