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Cloudy Future. Colonsay is an anachronism, and anachronisms are nearly always costly. The owner of the island-the "laird" of the title-is an Englishman named Euan Howard, fourth Baron Strathcona. It was his mixed fortune to inherit the place in 1959 along with the responsibility to maintain at his own expense a broad range of social and economic services. At that time the island cost ? 10,000 a year to keep going. Through economies, the island produce, including cattle and sea kale, is now just about able to support the inhabitants. McPhee likes Strathcona (rather better than his tenants...
Like most weekend golfers, an Englishman named A. (for Arthur) P. Pedrick, 52, often found his game wanting. "I was frustrated with my slicing and hooking," he says, "and I spent a lot of time looking for the damn ball in the rough. It was infuriating." But Pedrick, a mechanical engineer by training, a tinkerer by inclination-and a better inventor than golfer-has now filed plans with the British Patent Office for a series of devices that could offer the suffering duffer new hope on the links...
...protagonist is a late-model Amis antihero, middle-age division, of the type first launched in One Fat Englishman. Irascible and hypochondriacal, Maurice Allington runs The Green Man pub outside London, drinks a quart of Scotch a day and spends a lot of his time scheming to get his wife and his best friend's wife into bed with him at the same time. Maurice is a little short on charm, but any man with some of his phobias-sour white wines, sweet feminine conversations, more-secular-than-thou swinging clerics...
...second to the vincible puppy. All that is missing is Linus, Lucy, Schroeder & Co. Standing in for them is a series of second-banana-peel comedians. Among them: a down-at-the-heils German agent, a couple of farceurs from the French intelligence, and a pip-pip righty-o Englishman...
They should certainly avoid Richard Zorza's The Right To Say We: The Adventures of a Young Englishman at Harvard and in the Youth Movement (New York: Praeger, paper $2.25). Whatever things Zorza's book may have going for it, facts are not among them. Culminating all the sloppy inaccuracies, the book is dedicated (inexplicably) to the city manager of Cambridge, whose first name Zerza gets wrong. Although the most smoothly written of the three strike books. Zorza's book alternates from wallowing in romanticism about Youth and Togetherness to trampling through the most incredibly arcane details of moderate student...