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MORNING IN ANTIBES, by John Knowles (186 pp.; Macmlllon; $3.95). John Knowles's second novel might seem more nearly satisfactory if his first, A Separate Peace, had not been flawless. His gaze at the soul's dark places is still direct, but in the shadows of the present novel, about the beach lizards of the French Riviera, there is both far less and far more than meets...
...repeat business from travelers who have seen the Caribbean or Greek islands several times, cruises are offering a new variety of on-ship activities. American Export Lines, for example, is running a Caribbean "Culture Cruise" that leaves New York this week. The culture seekers will be able to gaze at a gallery of paintings by artists from Winslow Homer and Frederic Remington to Ben Shahn and Milton Avery, will be lectured by Cornelia Otis Skinner and Critic John Mason Brown, Poet John Ciardi and Manhattan's Whitney Museum Director Floyd Goodrich as the ship steams through the warm Caribbean...
...Legions!" A typical S.A.O. manifesto recalls French soldiers fallen in colonial wars: "Our dreams are full of their death, and often at night we hear the desperate cries of the colonial peoples whom we were forced to abandon as our departing boats tore the last French flag from their gaze. The thought of our Tricolor, having led everywhere, having cast the shadow of French peace on the soil of Africa and Asia, gives us a heavy heart. But our dead, our battles, our faith forbid us the cowardice of weariness. The last battle is joined. We will...
...brother James is traditionally shown as a young man; he has thick brown hair, receding slightly at two points, and a short, fringelike beard, much like Christ's. St. Paul has a large bald head, a dark, scraggly, pointed beard, an aquiline nose and "a lively penetrating gaze." St. Philip wears no beard but has dark, curly hair receding toward baldness. St. Luke has a thin mustache, sunken cheeks, a sparse, round beard, and a bald spot in the midst of brown wavy hair...
...Princess Lee Radziwill, at a recent White House bash in her honor, the President yielded to Guest Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr., who launched into a rambling salute to her husband, Prince Stanislaus ("Stash") Radziwill-who just happened to be home in London at the time. Locking his gaze on Jacqueline Kennedy's fashion mentor, Oleg Cassini, Roosevelt droned relentlessly on, undeterred by the President's prompting interjections (". . . Stash, wherever you are"), committing a pas almost anyone might have fauxed (see cuts...