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...Pope John XXIII, about whom Burgess, a strict English Catholic, is highly critical. Soon to be published is the third and concluding volume of the Enderby novels, the story of a poet who loses and then regains his creative gift, generally regarded as one of Burgess's finest literary accomplishments. There is also an epic poem based on his recent script for the Italian TV production of Moses-with Burt Lancaster in the title role. In his spare time, Burgess looks for someone to put on his musical based on James Joyce's Ulysses...
...women's tennis from a defensive base-line game into an aggressive, serve-and-smash attack. Third-ranked U.S. woman player in 1920, she soon started coaching and made Wimbledon champions of Alice Marble, Maureen Connolly and Bobby Riggs. "Teach," as she was nicknamed by one of her finest show-biz pupils, Carole Lombard, was also courtside mentor of Clark Gable, Marlene Dietrich and Groucho Marx...
...finest illustrations of all scatter the only verse narrative in Beyond the Looking Glass. Christina Rossetti wrote this text, called "Goblin Market," and Laurence Housman made the wood cuts. Rossetti was an excellent religious poet with near a thousand orthodox Christian poems to her credit, but "Goblin Market" is a far cry from pious spirituality. The verse oozes with sensual color and tastes; it is a surprisingly erotic work of literature for children...
Music Notes. The Persuasions bring some of the world's finest soul harmonizing to Paul's Mall through Sunday, May 19. Call 267-1300 for information...Houndog Taylor plays through Saturday, May 18 at The Performance Center, 8 and 10:30 p.m. each night. Ike and Tina Turner cancelled their scheduled show there; their loss is our gain...
...Their finest moment had come on the water, in the last moments of the race, swinging together precisely, a collective manifestation of skill, eight instruments of controlled violence...