Word: golden
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...GOLDEN TREASURY OF JOHN BETJEMAN (Spoken Arfs). In a series of dry and witty poems, read with impeccable comic pitch, the author (TIME, Feb. 2) recalls an England of "retired schoolmasters, retired colonels and handsome, healthy children'' with bodies "bursting into teens." In "amatory" mood, he sings his passion for a tennis partner...
...TEMPLE OF THE GOLDEN PAVILION (262 pp.)-Yukio Mishima, translated by Ivan Morn's-Knopf...
...Golden's friend Carl Sandburg, about whom he is writing a book, has called him the Jewish Will Rogers. He might be called the Jewish Edgar Guest, too, but at his best, the cigar-chewing editor does evoke the old Rogers twang. Golden on the U.S. Astronauts: "Having found the perfect man, it seems the last place they should send him is to the moon. They ought to shoot off the least qualified man, because we need the best man like we never needed him before...
Tennis, Everyone? Author Golden has a Negro bartender-chauffeur now and a packed lecture schedule, but otherwise seems little altered by his success (or by the disclosure last year that he had once served a prison term for mail fraud). Golden believes he is successful because not only Jews but others can identify themselves with his stories: "Until now, writers of immigrant literature treated it all like a case history. Some were frankly ashamed of it. They made out like it was mysterious, and something the quicker over with the better. I came along and told the same story without...
Actually, unpredictable Harry Golden is too complex to serve well as anyone's folk hero, and not all of his views endear him to liberals. Segregation of public facilities is evil, he says, but "private preference" is different. "When Dr. Bunche complains because he can't get into the West Side Tennis Club, that just obscures the issue. The Jews are just as bad. They want to get into the country club. Abe Ribicoff has gotten to be governor of Connecticut, and they worry about the country club...