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What happens to Channing should not befall any hard-working superstar. At the play's beginning, she is a rich widow mourning her husband by wearing every awful gem he ever gave her. About to board the Ile de France, she recalls an earlier, gayer voyage. The rest of the evening flashes back to Gentlemen...
...Edwardians by J.B. Priestley. Illustrated. 302 pages. Harper & Row. $ 15. The lower classes were wretched and the Boer War was a scandal, but in the main the Edwardians were as self-possessed as their older brothers, the late Victorians, and a good deal gayer. The Empire was at its apogee; surveying his South African fortune and keeping his subjunctives firmly in place, Cecil Rhodes said, "If there be a God I think he would like me to paint as much of Africa British-Red as possible." Yet great social reforms at home permitted the top authors-Kipling, Shaw and Wells...
...Harvard in 1936 that Galbraith first read John Maynard Keynes's General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, and became an immediate convert. It was there that he met a clutch of Kennedys: Joe Jr., then a sophomore; young Jack, who was "gayer, more easygoing, less politically inclined"; and Joe Sr., whom he approvingly describes as a "real operator." And it was there that he met his future wife, Catherine ("Kitty") Atwater, a petite (5 ft. 4 in.), pretty Smith valedictorian who was studying comparative literature at Radcliffe. "I looked up and up," notes Kitty of their first encounter, "wondering...
...bizarre costumes-just good old-fashioned harmonizing. Their concerts are as homey and relaxed as a Saturday-night song-swapping session in some backwoods farmhouse. That, in fact, is the source of their repertory-a rich and rewarding evocation of the musical life that made the hearthside a little gayer in the long decades before the dawn...
...spirits are gayer...