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...years in the House of Commons, Bessie Braddock has irritated, amused and disgusted other M.P.s, but has ended by winning a grudging admiration from most. "Our people are living in flea-ridden, bug-ridden, rat-ridden, lousy hellholes," she told them. "I will continue to agitate and kick up a row until we get rid of these evils." When the Tories walked out to protest one Labor bill, Bessie (in the words of one reporter) "rose from her seat and made a few steps forward, then a few steps backward. She then arched her body and minced across the floor...
...know they had this. It's worth a fortune." But what held Picasso's attention longest was a plaster Madonna from his boyhood home. Exclaimed Picasso: "We had this statue in Malaga. Actually, it's a statue of Venus which father bought in the flea market. He painted on the tears, draped the figure in plaster-soaked cloth. Now my niece has made a crown of flowers. Good! Good! She continues the tradition...
CONSTANCE, by Hervé Bazln (216 pp.; Crown; $3). French Author Bazin's novels (Viper in the Fist, Head Against the Walls) are as alive, cynical and human as the Paris Flea Market, but like that fascinating catchall, they end by suggesting that the props of life, and finally life itself, add up to a shabby bargain. In this work. Heroine Constance, hopelessly crippled in a World War II bombing, has no intention of divorcing herself from the world. Transformed from a good-looking, athletic girl into an object of pity, she determines to live through other people. Flip...
Thus inspired, Neuberger began his campaign. As a worried Cordon aide put it last week: "That Dick Neuberger has been hopping about the state like a goddam flea...
David Riesman, who rocketed from the internecine warfare of the Partisan Review to the cover of Time in the course of the summer, plays the part of a flea upon the body intellectual, continually spurring it on to new efforts. Like any such insect, he occasionally gets under the skin of the host upon whom he depends for existence. It is not surprising that Mr. Kaplowitz, plagued to distraction by Riesman, petulantly scolds him for lacking virtues he never attempted to possess. "Riesman's plethoric insights never come together to form a conscious, let alone conscientious stand." What flea ever...