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...dramatic chronicle of the encounter of the aging conquistador Francisco Pizarro and the young Inca emperor Atahuallpa, however, the play is mechanical, preachy, largely unaffecting and sometimes silly. Ancient Mariner style, Shaffer supplies his own albatross in the form of a narrator, always an ill omen that the drama will be becalmed. He harangues the listener on the hypocrisy of the Catholic Church and the evils of war and plunder. His ultimate theme is that God is dead and life lacks meaning. Royal Hunt is a sort of Tiny Alice shorn of obscurantism and sent to Inca land...
...EMPEROR OF ICE-CREAM, by Brian Moore. A tough, uncompromising novel about a very young man who learns the value of self-respect by daring to meet the crises caused by an air raid during World War II. Author Moore (The Luck of Ginger Coffey) casts a cold eye on society but warms it with Irish...
Strange are the powers of the inscrutable Occident and its music. Whenever Japan's scholarly Prince Mikasa, 49, youngest brother of Emperor Hirohito, hears the screechings of a U.S. hillbilly tune, he sheds his coat and happily stomps around like a Tennessee mountaineer. The prince did it twice on a private tour of the U.S.-once at the New York World's Fair, where he do-si-doed into a square-dance demonstration, again in Philadelphia when he overheard the Delaware Valley Square Dance Association holding a hoedown in the ballroom of his hotel. But at the mention...
...EMPEROR OF ICE-CREAM by Brian Moore. 250 pages. Viking...
...finale of seem. The only emperor is the emperor of ice-cream...