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Into this demi-monde blunders Theodore Faron, Professor of History at Merton College, Oxford and cousin to the enigmatic Xan. A revolutionary cell, outraged by the injustices perpetrated by the Warden, approaches Faron to ask him to use his influence with his cousin. His mission comes to naught, but he falls gushingly in love with a soft-spoken revolutionary, and vows to help her change the world...
...sperm is sterile. But listen. England's green and pleasant land is still surprisingly intact. In P.D. James' THE CHILDREN OF MEN (Knopf; $22) the country is ruled by a dictator who has canceled most civil liberties. But the middle class still prospers, and Oxford shelters scholars like Theo Faron. Because he is the strongman's cousin, he is approached by a pretty member of a dissident group. Her fellows turn out to be cliches, and, of course, she gets pregnant. Sci-fi is a cottage industry, but it is not the terrain of James, who presides over mysteries. Usually...
...four times married, Earle seems occasionally to be dedicating himself to Faron Young's country credo: "Live fast, love hard and die young." A fracas with a trouble-oriented Dallas cop last New Year's Eve will bring him to trial on an assault charge July 25, after finishing his new UNI album, Copperhead Road. He could be referring to both his legal exploits and his musical experiments when he predicts, "It's safe to say I'll never get on the Grand Ole Opry now." Copperhead Road mixes pertinent politics and a heavy beat and makes no apologies...
...song for a paltry $150 to finance a move to Nashville. There he quickly made it as a songwriter, but for other singers. Crazy rose high on the charts when Patsy Cline recorded it. So did Funny How Time Slips Away as recorded by Jimmy Elledge, Hello Walls by Faron Young, and dozens of others. It seemed Willie could write a hit for anybody but himself. His own recordings went nowhere, perhaps because they were not truly his own. Producers decreed that he should be backed by slick studio musicians and often swathed in saccharine strings. What came...
...Faron Memorial Concert--Faure, Schubert and lute songs at Adams...