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...Fey Side. The first miracle involves his own nature. He lived in dreams, and as a man of 58 he still knows the boyhood truth that all children are slightly daft and that imaginative children are plain off their rocker. In the midst of this Cork slum, screaming with malice, he lived among "Invisible Presences"-imaginary young aristocrats at British public schools about whom he read in penny weeklies of the sort that excited the wrath of Etonian George Orwell. Through these stories, barefoot Mick was initiated into the code of the young English gentleman. Naturally it got him into...
...writing his mother's life-partly, of course, as she told it to him-O'Connor has no pity left to spend on himself. "The gutter where life had thrown her was deep and dirty," he notes. But, like her son, Mother was a bit on the fey side. With the innocence they shared, they forded the gutter undirtied. A quality that O'Connor variously calls "gaiety," "simple-mindedness" or "belief in the world of appearances" made for survival against the O'Donovan strain, which was morose, complicated and given to inward broodings...
...packed service they had just attended was all that Editor Harold Fey said it was: two leading churchmen had proposed seriously that U.S. Protestants begin at once to unite in a single church. Church unity is something both clergymen and laymen have been talking about for years, but this was the most direct and concrete proposal yet. The man who made it was a rugged, dimpled Presbyterian liberal-Eugene Carson Blake...
...cast, with the exception of Mr. McDowall, is excellent. M'el Dowd, as Morgan Le Fey, is appropriately unusual, and Mr. Goulet makes a handsome and robust Lancelot. Julie Andrews still has that "delicate air," but in this production she is overshadowed by smashing performances from Robert Coote and Mr. Burton, Mr. Coote, who will be remembered as Pickering in My Fair Lady, is a riot as Pellinore, with his blustery Britishness and total incompetence in any given situation. Mr. Burton's dramatic talents are already widely recognized, and he enhances that reputation as a perfect Arthur in Camelot...
Edna St. Vincent Millay-vied eagerly for the honor of contributing to his column. These guest appearances, combined with his own fey wit, earned him a tidy salary-at one time $25,000 a year-and a wide following. The Adams circle grew by millions after he joined radio's renowned Information Please quiz program in 1938, along with Clifton Fadiman, John Kieran and Oscar Levant...