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...life's castaways assembles. Maxine Faulk (Bette Davis) is the recently widowed proprietor of the hotel, a spitfire sensualist who regards her unbuttoned-to-the-waist body as her soul. T. Lawrence Shannon (Patrick O'Neal) is an alcoholic, defrocked minister who herds lady-tourists off the guidebook route, but is himself spooked by bottomless guilt. Hannah Jelkes (Margaret Leighton) is a Nantucket spinster of nearly 40 who does portrait sketches to eke out a precariously transient existence, but all of her emotional assets are banked with her 97-year-old grandfather, Nonno. Billed as "the world...
...young women) went directly to Ghana, to teach in secondary schools. The other 30 (all men) flew to Puerto Rico for 26 days of field training before proceeding to Tanganyika, where they will build roads for the next two years. Available soon to each corpsman is a special guidebook, "Working Effectively Overseas." Crammed with information on the problems and pitfalls-trivial as well as serious-of working in primitive countries, the booklet was drawn from the painful experience of other Americans in the field. Items...
Abroad, Cheever seems to find a new freedom; the three stories about Italy have the charm and knowingness that come only to a writer who has thrown away the guidebook. But hell, at least Cheever's hell, is ever waiting just around the corner. In The Golden Age, the U.S. "situation-comedy" writer has come to Italy to try to forget that he is one. Somewhat guiltily he tries to create the impression that he is a poet-but poetic justice triumphs. Up to his rented castle comes a delegation headed by the mayor. They have just seen...
Bonn, complains one longtime German diplomat, is "not a capital but a form of capital punishment." A guidebook once described the foggy little university town (1946 pop. 94,694), the birthplace of Beethoven, as "a favorite resting place for retired officials in the evening of their lives." Lacking first-line hotels, nightclubs and airport, it is often jeeringly called "the federal village." The streets are cobbled, narrow, picturesquely obstructed by vegetable markets and, at one conspicuous intersection, by a medieval gate that funnels all traffic into a single lane. The main rail line between Cologne and Koblenz runs smack through...
...days of your prosperity you would doubtless have made the conventional rounds, London, Stratford, Winchester, Bath, Windsor, walking on a carpet of your own dollars. Today, when every cent must pay its way, new glories await you." In inexpensive Staffordshire, visit "Walsall, one of the few guidebook towns with absolutely nothing under 'Features of Interest'" or "nearby Smethwick, with its locally popular Victoria Public Park (no charge...