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Unfortunately, the previously published Part I of Mr. Noon positively begs to be dismissed; Lawrence's ability to make a short story long is truly stunning. Gilbert Noon, a dour mathematics teacher in his mid-20s, may or may not have got a local Midlands lass in a family way. The truth, after 90 pages of meandering prose, remains unclear, at which point even the author grows bored with his characters: "Let them go to hell...
...newly unveiled Part II displays a significant change; Gilbert Noon is now studying for a doctorate in Munich and, more important, he has become a fictional surrogate of D.H. Lawrence...
That may be because not much actually happens. Gilbert and Johanna mope around Germany while her aristocratic Prussian parents try to persuade them both of their un conscionable folly. Dead ends are followed by standoffs. In the interims, Lawrence chats: "How a Times critic dropped on me for using the word toney! I'm sure I never knew it wasn't toney any more to say toney." And he preaches, "Let us confess our belief: our deep, our religious belief. The great eternity of creation does not lie in the spirit, in the ideal. It lies...
...DIED. Gilbert Renault, 79, much decorated hero of France's World War II Resistance, who under the nom de guerre Colonel Rémy organized for Charles de Gaulle the Free French intelligence service, which, among other things, procured German plans for the coastal defenses in Normandy and helped make possible the selection of the Allies' D-day landing sites; of a heart attack; in Guingamp, France. After the war Renault joined, then quit, De Gaulle's political organization, and recounted his adventures in several colorful and popular memoirs...
...avoid doing anything in a superficial way," says Gilbert Kaplan, 43, the publisher of Institutional Investor. So he does. In 1982 the amateur musician rented Avery Fisher Hall in New York City's Lincoln Center and hired the American Symphony Orchestra so that 2,700 friends and associates could hear him conduct Mahler's "Resurrection" Symphony. Last week Kaplan took another characteristically direct action. Increasingly distracted from the publishing company he founded 17 years ago, Kaplan announced its sale, in addition to 18 TV and radio stations, to Capital Cities Communications, owner of W and Women...