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Conversational Canapés. Gunther's theory of history (and Gibbon's) is that events are shaped by "accidents of personality." Focusing on each country mainly through its key men, he succeeds best with those he knows. He did not interview Adenauer (though he notes later that der Alte "will see almost anybody") and his sketch of "this tenacious old gentleman" seems curiously flimsy. On the other hand, he vividly pictures De Gaulle-whom he interviewed before the return to power-as "gnarled with ego" and "positively lunar," yet possessed of a curious humility that prompted...
...rules than marriage itself. Oxford Philosophy Don Iris Murdoch has written a novel about adultery so complex and involuted as to suggest an anthropologist's chart of the mating patterns of a tribe at once polygamous and polyandrous. Among the wholly amoral cast of characters: Martin Lynch-Gibbon, an elegant but asthmatic London wine merchant, who is also the novel's narrator; his blonde wife Antonia; his black-haired mistress, Georgie; their joint analyst, Anderson Palmer, a smooth, prosperous Freudian who, despite a "big white American smile," is also something of a warlock and misleads both women from...
...Strip &; Gibbon. One significant fact is that the whole spectacle is anything but wicked. Burlesque has never come back since La Guardia, and the strip joints are more pathetic than inflammatory-particularly since Strip Row on West 52nd Street was closed down in deference to all the big new office skyscrapers and remote Greenwich Village has become almost the last outpost of the skin trade...
Despite some mob money invested here and there, the U.S. is not going to pot in the smoky grottoes of Manhattan, and no Gibbon is going to find his Decline and Fall in them. He would find much expensive tastelessness, along with some great entertainers who are really worth the cover charge, and if his taste is jazz, he would find the best around. But all together, the clubs probably pull fewer rivets out of civilization than, for example, a single lunch counter on 14th Street, which is S.R.O. now in the Nativity season, under a towering sign: THE PRINCE...
Captain Kangaroo (Columbia). If Gibbon were alive, he would probably blame the Decline of the West on Captain Kangaroo. Culture snobs notwithstanding, the fact is that the gentle captain makes small fry happy, and these two bouncy collections of songs, capers and "riddle-a-diddles" are calculated to make them happier still...