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...hard to give him the last measure of commitment-and even love-that a passionate reader gives to a very few writers: (let's say) Faulkner, Fitzgerald, Joyce, Twain, Melville, Yeats, Crane and yesbygod Hemingway. Is it Updike's faint tinge of smugness? Is he too much a cherisher of clever conceits? The reasons seem murkier the more they are examined, but they refuse to be examined away. What stirs these grumbles this time is the author's new collection of short stories. The book also stirs, of course, all of the old admiration: Lord, how well...
This is why many intellectuals like T.S. Eliot, William Faulkner or D.H. Lawrence would be disgusted by the modern world, and why the peasants would not like it either, and the top and bottom would come together to get rid of the middle classes. Except: the intellectuals are always betrayed, because the peasants basically want to become middle class, and so there's a slippage. Many of the intellectuals now are so hungry for order that they would be willing to see the end of democracy and some new kind of Napoleonic order coming in. Arnold Toynbee...
...Derry. Later, in Belfast's fiercely loyalist Shankill district, bonfires burned in celebration. Among Unionist Party politicians, who had recently been calling him "Willie Whitewash" and accusing him of appeasing Catholic terrorists, Whitelaw was suddenly immensely popular. One of his most bitter critics, former Ulster Prime Minister Brian Faulkner, promised the government his "full support and prayerful thought...
...Have and Have Not. On re-viewing, the film is disappointingly dull. Howard Hawks directed uninspiredly. Bogart looks tired, even the Faulkner quips aren't so hot. Lauren Bacall remains smashing. So does Take the Money and Run, a filmed string of Woody Allen routines written and directed by... Woody Allen. HARVARD SQUARE THEATER. Have: 3:25, 6:35, 9:45. Take...
...Have and Have Not. Bogart is an anti-Vichy gun-runner; Bacall, in her screen debut, gets to tell him if-you-need-anything-just-whistle. Forget Hemingway (the filmmakers did), but Faulkner helped write the script, Howard Hawks directed, Bogart is "Nietszche in dungarees" and Bacall's come-ons are hilarious. With Take the Money and Run, the first Woody Allen-directed comedy. HARVARD SQUARE THEATER. Call...