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...help laughing at Babe's thwarted attempts to hang herself with knitting yarn, or at the speculation over Lenny's secret rendezvous with a Tennessee gentleman. Yet simultaneously, both scenes arouse pity--a comic pathos that only a perceptive and talented playwright like Henley could achieve...
...California vineyards, where harvesting was under way last week, Coca-Cola's departure from the business was quietly welcomed by competitors, who resented the company's aggressive marketing tactics. "Coke wasn't a gentleman in a gentleman's industry," said Emanuel Goldman, a partner of Montgomery Securities in San Francisco. It is expected that the tough advertising that Coca-Cola fostered will probably end. Meanwhile, wine prices are likely to start increasing, largely because of a predicted small 1983 harvest. Seagram's may be getting deeper into wine at the perfect moment...
...Robert Louis Stevenson saw him, James Durie, the Master of Ballantrae, dressed entirely in black and had the bearing "of one who was a fighter and accustomed to command." His brother Henry "had the essence of a gentleman, but... he fell short of the ornamental." What is more, the family was a bit hard-pressed for funds. Something has been lost in the translation. As elegantly portrayed by Michael York, 41, and Richard Thomas, 32, in a three-hour CBS-TV version to be aired next year, James and Henry seem to have been modeled less on the hardy Duries...
Novelist Laura Z. Hobson (Gentleman's Agreement, Consenting Adult) suggests that the really basic human drives cannot be deterred. Murder, for instance, or war, or the neurotic love of a woman for a man who has hurt her. About the last, Hobson should know. Most of the men in her long life-she is now 83-seem to have turned out faithless or spineless, or both, and she has given them all ample opportunity to prove...
Still, Hobson's book reflects formidable energy and grit, and it ends with an account of a genuine triumph: her stinging 1947 bestseller about antiSemitism, Gentleman's Agreement. Publishing it amounted to breaking a conspiracy of silence and shouting out one of middle-class America's nastiest little secrets. Hobson was undeterred as usual, even by resistance from an unexpected quarter. Among six or eight people whom she consulted before publication, she notes, the general advice was to "go ahead from Christians, and not go ahead from Jews." -By Christopher Porterfield