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...third place was Allen Long, the team's token Englishman. Newly-elected captain Andy Meltzoff took fifth, Rich Jurgens eighth, Jacob Seniuk 10th and Phil Lichtenstein 13th...
Woozy Notion. To this the author adds three central characters-a German, an Englishman, a German-born Israeli-all lawyers assigned to the case. At first, they seem to invite a formal, wooden trialogue that might be entitled "stances to be taken when confronted by the enormities of the past." The German protects himself from guilt by evolving a woozy, romantic notion of national change and renewal. Today's "good, decent people," he reflects hazily, could no longer be "the same people who had performed the actions . . . the horrifying things they had." The Englishman avoids large moral judgments, clinging...
...Moscow's Pushkin Square was thronged with workers heading homeward for their evening borsch. Suddenly two pacifists, an American girl and an Englishman, appeared and began handing out leaflets in Russian urging the startled recipients to take "any peaceful action in your power" to bring about the withdrawal of Soviet and other Warsaw Pact troops from Czechoslovakia...
This is a good book that perhaps only an Englishman could love. Miss Duffy's novel deals with the struggles of a young writer who lives on a houseboat moored in the Thames. Separated from his wife and child, mired in an unpromising literary career, he tries to find himself by casting off the paraphernalia of modern life. His boat turns out to be rot-ridden and spider-struck. Every night cats and rats perform a dance of death on his cabin roof. Worse, the free spirits whom he expected to find among other houseboat owners turn...
Unlike James Joyce, who refused to read Freud, or Dylan, who could not listen to Sgt. Pepper, novelist-essayist-poet and Joyce disciple Anthony Burgess has read everything. The prolific Englishman, author of thirteen books since 1949, has thrown it all into his latest tale of a lonely antihero dragging his dyspeptic way through the exoticisms of the Great Mundane. Burgess's greatest creation is Enderby, a wheezing, farting, belching bachelor poet who writes in the lavatory of his filthy flat. Enderby is a Mad Magazine version of Leopold Bloom; he sentimentally feeds gulls and innocently offends all the local...