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...himself. Cuba is less angry about drug use--he snorts cocaine all the time--than at his son's turning to anyone but him for life's experiences. An eerie, subliminally sexual bond of dominance pervades this womanless household, with the boy serving as a submissive valet, an Edith Bunkerish wife. Macchio, in a brilliant stage debut, sustains that disquieting relationship. Yet he renders Teddy as a talented and basically normal kid, reconciled to the fact that his father may love him but will never understand...
...There are no coed rooms in Eliot House. It's University policy, it's a simple as that," says Edith Mead Holway, assistant to the master of Eliot House...
Asked to comment on the decision by the Collegium Musicum, a Harvard singing group, to cancel its tour of Britain (see story at right), moderator Edith Flynn, a professor at Northeastern University's College of Criminal Justice, said "they would have been perfectly all right." She said London's Heathrow Airport has very strong security...
...kind blessed with such humility. In fact, this is the only important problem with the book: in his own memoirs Guinness does not talk enough about himself. The book is loosely arranged in chapters dealing with a theme or a person; one on his childhood, one on Edith Sitwell, one on Tony Guthrie, etc. Chronology is left to necessity, so an instant after Guinness meets Ernest Milton he is attending his funeral. Some things are left completely in the dark; after 225 pages of reminiscence we still don't know how he met his wife, or what he even sees...
...blessings in this all- too-short autobiography (Knopf; $17.95) wear no masks. Along with an engaging picture of Guinness himself, there are candid and almost always hilarious portraits of some of those he has met along the way to his threescore and eleven: George Bernard Shaw, Tyrone Guthrie, Edith Evans, Martita Hunt, Noel Coward and even Ernie Kovacs, who, he says, was "just about the funniest man I have ever...