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...rejection with good humor. "Bring out your rejection letters, Jeff," he said. Jeff, who had wadded them all into a ball, tried to uncrinkle them. "Its the population explosion," said Brookstone. "You can attribute it all to that. Competition is just too tough." Then he added, with a grin: "All the same, I'll never endow a building at Harvard or Yale after this." But Jeff wistfully recalls visiting Cambridge and New Haven last summer: "Have you ever been to Harvard? The whole atmosphere is just tremendous. You can almost sense the learning and the traditions of the place...
...film critic and ex-wife of Novelist Romain Gary, she has written several skillful biographies of the period (The Wilder Shores of Love, The Sabres of Paradise). In this book, her first novel, she proves herself a comic writer with a range of wit that can make her readers grin, giggle, gasp, even explode into laughter...
What strikes one most forcefully about Mr. Stone is that he is a terribly happy man. "What made you start your paper?" a student asks. "There was no alternative. I was in despair," he replies, a big wide grin spread across his face. Only a happy heretic knows that kind of despair. Even bemoaning our policy in Cuba or Vietnam, his most concerned expressions are always dissolving into smiles...
...ridden: pleasant person to chat with in the afternoon. But one knows better to let politics meander into the conversation, for geniality will soon way to deadly serious declamations about Creeping Socialism, Communism Within Our Gates, the Fall the Roman Empire, the Sanctity Private Property--followed by an embarrassed grin and a question about your golf game...
...ludicrous." Indeed it would. The only son of Rex Harrison and Marjorie Noel Thomas, Rex's first wife, Noel has a pleasant voice as well as a stylish way with a song-and when he got hugged by Friend Sybil Burton on opening night, he flashed a grin that was curiously evocative of his father's. And the critics agree that Noel may well go as far as Rex. Anyway, he sings a lot better...