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...years before Congolese independence, Belgium's starchly paternalistic colonial officials were fond of boasting that the standard of medical care in the Congo was the highest in all Africa. Last week the boast sounded more hypocritical than Hippocratic...
Portrait of Max, by S. N. Behrman. A fond, endearing portrait of Sir Max Beerbohm, whom the author met in Rapallo during the sixth decade of that sempiternal Edwardian's self-declared...
...shock me. Nothing shocks me except cruelty." And what does he think of women these days? "As far as I can judge, with women it is all take and no give. There must be some women who are not liars. I do know a few women I am extremely fond of, but at my age one's attitude is rather different from a young man's." One London attraction: "A crematorium for my personal use" nearby...
THEREFORE BE BOLD, by Herbert Gold (256 pp.; Dial; $3.95), is a fond, amused, amusing look backward at adolescence by an author whose other works include a hip novel, The Man Who Was Not With It, and a collection of psychologizing short stories about young separateds, Love and Like. As in his other books, Author Gold, 36, shows considerable skill, inconsiderable passion (or heart, as the song writers have it), and a tendency to roll his phrases around in his mouth now and then in the manner of a winetaster...
None of this touches an American reader deeply; what is of interest is that having satisfied the requirements of tradition, the author provides a gentle but undeluded view of her villagers. The priest, Father Roque, is a good but henpecked man who, when vexed, is fond of wondering how his idol, Cardinal Spellman, would deal with his parishioners. "Oh, Lord, let her eat fewer raw onions, let her abstain from onions, let her learn to abhor them," he implores, after listening in tears to his harridan of a housekeeper. Among Father Roque's other trials are an arrogant matron...