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For this week's report on rhythmical Trinidad (see Music), however, Harman took his ear directly to the source. From predawn, when a rooster, the only unmusical creature he heard on the island, awoke him, he roamed the carnival-crowded streets of Port-of-Spain to hear such exotic...
Tom and Janice Forester are contented with each other, their eleven-year-old daughter Polly and fate-that difficult headwaiter whom they have charmed into giving them the best table. Janice is a healthy model of housewifely efficiency. Tom is a grey flannel suitor of success who has $14,000...
All France (plus half a dozen exotic remnants of the old empire) simmered last week with such hot-tempered politics. Only a few days remained before 26 million Frenchmen were to go to the polls and with their ballots reveal what the politicians called "tomorrow's secret": Who, or...
One half of the court is called the service side; the other the hazard side, for reasons seen to become obvious. The "dedans," the "grille," and the "winning gallery" are three exotic names for holes which harass the unfortunate on the hazard side. If the server hits the 2 1/4-inch...
STAB IN THE DARK, by Joe Rayfer (218 pp.; Morrow; $2.75), makes excessive wickedness seem just about as dull as excessive virtue. A group of down-at-heel U.S. artists wasting their time and money in Guadalajara manage to be both bored and boring as they dabble with drink, dope...